The best thing you can do for yourself in dealing with large databases is to
use fast processors (500 MHz and above), as much RAM as you can get into the
box, and the fastest widest SCSI hard drives you can afford.
As far as using UNIX, the current Pentiums are as fast as a comparable Sun
and I believe the last UNIX version of MI was version 4. I recommend putting
your money in an Intel box.
Best regards,
Bruce B. Blais
Principal Consultant
PCN Professionals, Inc.
Wireless Telecom Specialists
Richardson (Dallas), Texas USA
www.pcn-pros.com
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Subject: MI preformance
it has little to do with mapinfo. I have a text file that has about 20
million pieces of data (350000 lines with each line being 600 characters
long). It takes about 5 minutes to open it up and even longer to save it
I
have only a single program that can even open that file). The problem is in
transmitting the data to and from disk. I suspect that your file has much
more than 470000 actual records.
s. figuers
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