RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

[Seley, Linda]

Don't assume that all vegetarians support PETA.  It's not a one-to-one relationship......  ;-)     Linda -----Original Message----- From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest I love doing this: PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.   joe >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 02:15PM >>> or did i mean petabytes.  those are the ones that are also friendly to animals.       -----Original Message----- From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OT RE: Largest Oracle Databases "picobytes"? lol.....   Attoboy! -----Original Message----- From: Jon Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Largest Oracle Databases In theory, Oracle can handle 512 Picobytes (or roughly 512,000 Terabytes) for Oracle 8i.  Have not heard if this has been increased for 9i. -----Original Message----- From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Largest Oracle Databases One of the smaller Physics projects, GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) is looking at  storing their data in Oracle.  The bulk of thge data will be a sky map of individual photons, about 20 terabytes, acquired at a rate of about 1 TB a year.  What size is the largest Oracle database at present?  I believe Oracle should be able to handle this, but I'd like to know if anyone has approached this size.  I hear rumors of Oracle databases of hundreds of  terabytes at the CIA, but I have no way to confirm them.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Offtopic I wrote a little while ago about CERN considering Oracle for LHC project, and  needing a petabyte database.  It turns out that the number was incorrect.  The petabyte that was tossed around a few years ago would be for online and secondary storage only.  I don't know their needs for tertiary storage, but our little project here , called Babar, which is expected to store half a petabyte of data in online and nearline storage  is sized to 300 petabytes when tertiary storage is included.  The 0.5 petabytes for online and nearline will probably be upped. If LHC has the same relationship between tertiary and  online/nearline storage, then they will need something which can handle about 600 petabytes.  Last week I attended a meeting on a project called SuperBabar.  Data estimates of size  for that one are one exabyte.  I'm sure there are others  in the works which will make SuperBabar look tiny.  The mind boggles. Babar is not in Oracle and I don't expect SuperBabar will be either. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]   -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A.   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).