hi richard, hope this finds you well. commercial, terabyte dbs are not unusual -- hell, you can buy a terabyte of disk pretty cheap. 64bit machines with terabyte RAM are not.
> Its hard to imagine a *real* file that cannot be handled > in a 64bit machine. of course, any real file on a 64 bit machine can be read with readcsv, as long as you've got RAM 5x the size of the file. i've been given some alternatives to readcsv, but all of them produce a huge boxed table for which i'll need RAM proportional to the size of the file. i'm easily distracted by problems that need a more elegant solution, and hence my ramblings earlier. my recent posts may be more appropriate to jchat or, not at all... > >From the earliest days in our industry wise > heads have said its not worth yr time programming > around hw limits. that DBMSes exist is a counter argument. ta, jack ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
