Re: Development Trends in Web and Oracle

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1110655662.534446_at_yasure...

> The storage, unless parsed to relational, wastes all of that space. CPU?
> Nothing moves anywhere without running through the CPU.

<LIGHT_HEARTED>
Nothing much moves around or happens on my computer without the CPU. <LIGHT_HEARTED/>

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1110655662.534446_at_yasure...
> Hexathioorthooxalate wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel, may I ask for you elaborate a little further on this please?
>>
>>
>>><RIDICULOUSLYLONGTABSIGNIFYINGNOTHING>X</RIDICULOUSLYLONGTABSIGNIFYINGNOTHING>
>>>
>>>XML is fine for front-ends but doesn't belong in a database unless the
>>>object is to spend money on hardware.
>>
>>
>> There is an inference in what you have written that
>> RIDICULOUSLYLONGTABSIGNIFYINGNOTHING occupies much space in the database
>> or significant CPU overhead to process (the hardware reference). You have
>> specifically not written this however so I ask for you to clarify?
>>
>> Regards
>> Hex
>
> The storage, unless parsed to relational, wastes all of that space. CPU?
> Nothing moves anywhere without running through the CPU. Given disk is
> cheap one could potentially overlook all of this but what can not
> be excused is the waste of network bandwidth. Why would anyone with a
> working synapse choose to increase bandwidth and decrease performance
> by pushing huge numbers of unnecessary bytes.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Sat Mar 12 2005 - 15:25:14 CST