Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

Posted in 1998

Billy Wheeler — Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:15:52 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 7 Nov 98, at 7:11, Axel Sander wrote: > On 05 Nov 1998 10:56:40 +0100, Alessio Milan <am@gic.it> wrote: > > >What? 1000000 * 30 MB = 30 TeraByte!! > >What kind of database can store and manage such amount of data? > > Hmm, would it really be *usefull* to put the graphics in the database? I > would put the graphic files in their own directory and keep just the > reference to the file in the database. I think this would be more 'handy'. Could be useful, especially if you upgraded to IDS/UDO and got the ability to do contextual searches of your images... -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________