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[Roland Cozzolino]

Flat data no problem, but hierarchies of that size?  Better ways to do 
that outside of a DB.

George Schlossnagle wrote:

>On Oct 28, 2005, at 12:44 AM, Roland Cozzolino wrote:
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>>That is a very valid point, ...however (there has to be some sort of
>>argument) ... if you have a table with N-million rows, chances are  
>>your
>>DB design isn't very good.
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>That claim reads to me like 'no data set reasonably has 3 million  
>distinct members in it', which is kinda obviously bogus.
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>I manage a number of ~1T sized databases.  I can guarantee you that  
>there are a number of tables in them that have N-million rows, where  
>N is not small.  Data points on customer behavior spanning a couple  
>years, things like that.
>
>George
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