On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:24:35AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> Have any of you worked with SQueaLServer with a large DB (multiple terabyte
> level), serving high volume transactions (read & write, of the order of
You'd have to be more specific than that. MS's terraserver
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp is absolutely
fekkin' enormous but is read-only.
Consult http://www.oracle.com/ for a near-infinite, and often plausible
sounding collection of propaganda. And of course there's Oracle's
Million Dollar Challenge wherein they'll hand out $1m if they can't get
your MS/DB2/BEA site running at least 3x faster:
http://www.oracle.com/guarantee/
Ballsy, to say the least.
At the end of the day, the simple fact is that Windows 2000 crashes more
frequently than *n[ui]x does -- this surely is unquestioned fact.
Whether that costs the company less than hiring a useful Oracle DBA is
another matter...
Paul
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