RE: Large databases

Jeremy,  

    OH Really, would you mind pointing that out to People Soft, SAP, Oracle, BAAN, Siebel, and a host of other OLTP system vendors!!  

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:04 PM
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> From: Lyndon Tiu [ mailto:ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca]
>
> Ths is real and happened to me last month.
>
> An "Access DBA" told me after seeing my Oracle/Postgresql database ER
> Diagram:
>
> "Your database is too big. I took an Access course last year
> and the instructor mentioned that tables should have no more
> than 4 columns each."

Would it be cruel of me to point out that s/he has a point? Assuming you're talking about a transactional system, of course...

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