RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???

2001-02-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ??? Ross, glad to see you're starting to come up to speed here. :) || Only with the help of the listers, Steve! Thanks.. But for the clustering to work, businesses would have to change software and segment the data The CNet authors

RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Orr
Name one company who wouldn't try to tweak a benchmark test in an unrealistic and/or deceptive fashion in order to make a few more sales. Oracle is guiltier than most and has made an art of it. Aren't benchmarks supposed to help us make better decisions? Instead they just add to the confusion.

RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???

2001-02-05 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
We have a 175 terabyte database in Objectivity. It houses event data from a physics experiments looking at the decay of B-mesons and their antimatter counterparts, trying to find out what's going on with CP violation. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]