Posted by Tony Rogerson on 02/06/06 17:09

> This is a job for Teradata, SAND, DB2, etc. I would want to have at
> least table partitioning and parallelism.

LOL - read the products specs, SQL Server has partitioning and parallelism.

Jeez you are soooo out of date on your research and opinions.

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"--CELKO--" <jcelko212@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>>> imagine if you will 5 tables. 3 of them are over a billion rows .. <<
>
> Since you did not post DDL, I do not see how they are related or what
> the query is. When you say "children" I assume you mean referencing
> tables? But in the real world, if I am dealing with an RDBMS that has
> billion row tables, I would not use SQL Server at all.
>
> This is a job for Teradata, SAND, DB2, etc. I would want to have at
> least table partitioning and parallelism.
>
>>> sql embedded in code is really bad. <<
>
> Unh? I never said anything about embedded SQL. I fact, I explicitly
> said that VIEWs and Stored Procedures serve different purposes.
>
> We used embedded SQL a lot in the early days wtih Cobol, PL/I and C (in
> fact, I have an example in C in my book INSTANT SQL). The precompilers
> were easier to use and more portable than the assorted APIs. You could
> get an executable that did not reveal source code the guys that bought
> your package. But the source code showed you both the host code and
> the SQL code when you maintained it.
>
> Then along came ODBC, ADAPI and SQL/CLI which match a teired
> architecture. embedded SQL fell out of favor. I doubt most current
> programmers would recognize this:
>
> EXEC SQL INCLUDE SQLCA;
> EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
> host_name character_string(20);
> host_emp_number integer;
> EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
> EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR STOP;
> EXEC SQL CONNECT frans;
>
> There is a website at
> http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frans/Notes/embeddedSQL.html#syntax if you
> are interested.
>

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