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Re: newbie queston: why would anyone use Oracle?

From: David Portas <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas_at_acm.org>
Date: 21 Sep 2005 09:04:29 -0700
Message-ID: <1127318669.841563.74140@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 






PJ6 wrote:



> > Also SQL Server (as shipped today) cannot scale either up or out.

> > I don't mean CPU, I mean big tables (storing LOBs is not what constitutes

> > a big table).

>

> Hmmm. Big as in tens or hundreds of gigabytes, right?




No. Bigger. SQL Server can and does run databases larger than 10s of
terabytes. I've personally worked with tables in SQL Server that
approach terabyte size but most people probably wouldn't cosider that
exceptional today.



David Portas
Received on Wed Sep 21 2005 - 11:04:29 CDT












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