Peter wrote:
Afaik the fastest servers (including Google and many others) do not use SQL for anything. An optimized hash table (tiered etc) should work much better than any SQL.
funny you should mention google - because all their computers that run the google sites, are.... no-name 1U and 2U x86 rack-mountable PCs, combined into a set of large clusters.
they use a replicating file-system + lots of communicatoins redundancy + monitoring software + lots of technicians and spare parts, to get the reliability they want.
see this: http://www.linesave.co.uk/google_search_engine.html --guy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]