Re: How Large is a BIG Relational DB

} } Greetings! Some assert that really big relational databases } using client-server architecture, big UNIX boxes, and } commercial database engines are IMPOSSIBLE. (I'm thinking } about complex relational designs with perhaps 100 tables, } many index fields, complex joins, etc.) } } What is possible? 10M records? 100M records? } Total data size 10GB? 100GB? } } I realize that the magic is in the details. Can anyone cite } known limitations or examples of successful efforts along these } lines? Pointers to people/projects/literature appreciated. } In short, where are the limits? Who has experience? } } Email replies please. Thanks for any comments! } } Dennis } technos@oasys.dt.navy.mil } } I gather that a company call Recognition Tech Inc. (RTI) has the record. For Sallie Mae they did a 500GB database. I gather they are now going (or have gone - my notes are non-existant) for 500 TERAbytes. cheers j. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| "I know things about pigeons Lilly" jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________