|  | Posted by raylopez99 on 07/15/07 13:28 
On Jul 15, 6:07 am, SQL Menace <denis.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
 [SQL Menace mentions his raw data is close to 300 GB, not 30 GB, and
 300 GB memory is expensive]
 
 OK, but even if your raw data is 300 GB rather than 30 GB then it will
 only cost about USD $10k to buy this memory--and it's cheaper than
 paying Oracle for license fees every year to lease their software.
 
 > >>Also
 > > remember right now with RDBMS you expend a tremendous amount of work
 > > putting data into "orthogonal" databases, via data entry forms
 >
 > Why, I 'enter' almost all of my data with BCP or BULK INSERT
 
 You're perhaps one of the lucky few.  Most people have to enter the
 data manually somewhere.
 
 >
 > >>You can avoid all of this with a flat file.  Just dump
 > > the raw data into memory
 >
 > What about bad data? where are your check constraints?
 
 They'll be filtered by the inference engine, magically.
 
 The future is now Dennis.   There's no use fighting the machines; they
 will eventually prevail and put you out of your job.
 
 RL
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