Re: Informix on Campus Program
Not a technical support thread. It starts with a poster dropping a link to a MySQL/Infobright data-warehousing article as a jab at the "Informix on Campus" discussion. Responses are mostly banter: one participant mocks Infobright's quoted limits (147 trillion theoretical rows, ~50 billion practical), another nitpicks the "mega/giga/tera" wording, and the exchange degenerates into insults. One contributor adds a nostalgic note about running Informix on an AT&T Unix box with green-screen terminals alongside Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect and dBASE III at university. No technical problem is posed and no resolution is recorded.
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Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html
InDeep wrote: > Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: > > http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html > > "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, but practically, 50 billion is the limit today" Woo ... mega. Not. -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > InDeep wrote: >> Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html >> >> >> > > "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, but > practically, 50 billion is the limit today" > > Woo ... mega. > > Not. > I can always depend on you to miss the point. *<8o)
InDeep wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > >> InDeep wrote: >> >>> Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: >>> >>> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >> "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, but >> practically, 50 billion is the limit today" >> >> Woo ... mega. >> >> Not. >> >> > > I can always depend on you to miss the point. > I'm not hugely concerned. IBM is marketing DB2 in the BI space. :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1803.1222327281.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > InDeep wrote: >> Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html >> >> > > "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, but > practically, 50 billion is the limit today" > > Woo ... mega. Well, giga actually. When I was a child, it would have been tera.
Captain Pedantic wrote: > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.1803.1222327281.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > >> InDeep wrote: >> >>> Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: >>> >>> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html >>> >>> >>> >> "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, but >> practically, 50 billion is the limit today" >> >> Woo ... mega. >> > > Well, giga actually. When I was a child, it would have been tera. > > What*ever* ... Talk to the hand ... -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1809.1222364402.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > Captain Pedantic wrote: >> "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message >> news:mailman.1803.1222327281.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... >> >>> InDeep wrote: >>> >>>> Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: >>>> >>>> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_infobright.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, but >>> practically, 50 billion is the limit today" >>> >>> Woo ... mega. >>> >> >> Well, giga actually. When I was a child, it would have been tera. >> > > What*ever* ... Talk to the hand ... Would rather not - seems to be resting on your cock.
-----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Captain Pedantic Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:36 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Informix on Campus Program "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1803.1222327281.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > InDeep wrote: >> Put this in your on-campus pipe and smoke it: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/datawarehousing_mysql_in >> fobright.html >> >> > > "Theoretically, an Infobright table can go up to 147 trillion rows, > but practically, 50 billion is the limit today" > > Woo ... mega. Well, giga actually. When I was a child, it would have been tera. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list We had some version of Informix running on an AT&T unix server. All of the clients were daisy-chained with their green screens displaying a simple menu. Other apps like Lotus123, WordPerfect, and DBASE III were available. AT&T, Vax, Mac, and IBM were among several vendors who had a presence on campus. From this exposure, I at least had some clue about Informix and how it compared to competitors.
>> What*ever* ... Talk to the hand ... > > Would rather not - seems to be resting on your cock. Wow - Captain P successfully channeling Obnoxio. Very, very, very funny. I wish I had said it (....oh wait, I will)
Mark Townsend wrote: > Wow - Captain P successfully channeling Obnoxio. > And how do you know this? -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com