On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 03:05, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya ron > > > And I'll be bringing home my greater-than-terabyte-sized > > enterprise database (to poke around with it..) some time in > > the near future??? Not likely. > > it fits in a itty bitty "2u" cases... > - 2 or more of um for redundancy/reliability > > > Besides, I don't have a $3M Alpha w/ VMS & Rdb licenses > > in the back bedroom, either... > > not yet :-)
Except that our data & applications are _on_ that $3M Alpha w/ VMS & Rdb licenses. > but everybody has more than a compute power equivalent of an > old cray-1 in their homes now... :-) Sure, my 1GHz Athlon-C does integer arithmetic faster than the 750MHz Alphas, but those 64-bit 66MHz PCI UW-SCSI cards pump the data through a lot faster than ATA/100 chipsets. (The 16GB cache RAM on the SAN also helps out...) I think we're well past the point where we must agree to disagree about the best way to back up enterprise databases. -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
