Re: OT: External table novelties

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:40:19 -0700
Message-Id: <1093498819.1891.33.camel@poirot>

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:39, Fuad Arshad wrote:
> external tables to read archive data.
> users normally always want the data even though they'll never actually use it .
> We've moved some data to flat files and given them views to access the data.
> works like a charm.
> Saved a lot of database apace and maintainence.

Those files could be hosted anywhere and mounted NFS.

Pretty good idea, thanks.

Jared

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