I understand your position Andreas and respect your opinion; maybe what I have identified as requirements is what you are specifying as *real* issues. I hope so, because I to would like to avoid unnecessary dbms efforts.
You got me very right. I didn't mean to declare high volume databasing as minor issue, I meant real world requirements.
Regards, Andreas
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