Re: Big Databases

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11528
interpreted = N
texte = >The size of the database doesn't depend on how many records it has - it...>Do you have any idea how much information will be stored in each record - >on average>I'm awaiting their IS Dept. to get me some sample records - but they're extremely slow (which is why I'm getting the development project...) so I don't really know yet. Regardless of what is in the records now we're going to strip them down to the bare essentials for our purposes which is: CustomerID, Name, Company, Address, Phone, FAX, E-mail - just the basic contact info.A sample I created used a maximum of about 300 characters (including delimiters) per record. Am I doing the math correct that 100,000 300-character records would require 30 MBytes of RAM? If so then doing a Lookup through 2 million records would not be possible... forgive me if I'm overlooking the obvious. -marty Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Big Databases (Marty Schmid 1997)
  2. Re: Big Databases (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  3. Re: Big Databases (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. Big Databases (Marty Schmid 1997)
>The size of the database doesn't depend on how many records it has - it...>Do you have any idea how much information will be stored in each record - >on average>I'm awaiting their IS Dept. to get me some sample records - but they're extremely slow (which is why I'm getting the development project...) so I don't really know yet. Regardless of what is in the records now we're going to strip them down to the bare essentials for our purposes which is: CustomerID, Name, Company, Address, Phone, FAX, E-mail - just the basic contact info.A sample I created used a maximum of about 300 characters (including delimiters) per record. Am I doing the math correct that 100,000 300-character records would require 30 MBytes of RAM? If so then doing a Lookup through 2 million records would not be possible... forgive me if I'm overlooking the obvious. -marty Marty Schmid

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