RE: RE: World's largest database...

Forgive a quick story on the LDS. Previously their hardware vendor was CDC. They were always tape-based, but decided to go on-line. Dedicated terminal at each location worldwide. CDC was excited, to say the least. Prospects of banks of mainframes, disk farms. But common sense struck before the contract was signed. The LDS decided they could simply have a PC in each location, and every few months burn new CD-ROMs. After all, dead people don't change much. CDC was crestfallen. Seriously, I understand that if you ever get into family genealogy, the LDS is a offers wonderful resources for free. Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:29 AM
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I can believe that - I think they are the group that offers all the geneaology services to track family histories. I'll bet that's one heck of database too!

Jim

"Boivin, Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> wrote:

>At the Oracle Technology Day here they mentioned that one of the largest
>databases belongs to the Church Of Latter Day Saints, if you can believe
it.
>
>They mentioned it in a seminar which also talked about iFS, I don't know
>they were implying that it relies on iFS.
>
>Regards,
>Patrice Boivin
>Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
>
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>Sent:   Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:03 AM
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>Subject:    World's largest database...
>
>http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO70250,00.html
>
>I thought we had someone on this list from this group, and was just
>wondering if this particular database was in Oracle or not.
>
>Jim
>
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