Re: How to keep a table in memory?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> I give this a +/- 1. Yes extremely heavy websites can do this *but* 
>> they require extremely expensive hardware to do so.
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> I expect extremely heavy websites to require extremely expensive 
> equipment regardless of the software they use. Cost was not the issue 
> raised by the OP.

Cost is always an issue, even if implicit. If the person is so hung up 
on the idea of pushing things into ram there is a pretty good 
possibility they have priced out the 50 and 100 spindle devices needed 
to get the same type of performance.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> cheers
> 
> andrew
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