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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