Re: Simple disk-based sorting method

On Apr 16, 3:48 pm, s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Citizen Bob) wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2007 10:48:04 -0700, "Ed Prochak" <edproc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >In this context (comp.databases), it seems appropriate to avoid
> >dealing directly with large amounts of data. Let the DBMS do it.  It
> >would be interesting to see if something like ORACLE could beat your
> >custom implementation. (Drop me a line sometime, so maybe we could run
> >a benchmark.)
>
> In another post I gave the basic description of the data set, so
> perhaps you could construct one and test it. Otherwise I would have to
> FTP mine to you. Do you have an FTP server that can handle a 37MB
> file.
>
> >one word: LINUX
>
> one word: Applications.

What, you *like* Office?

>
> We has our chance back in the early 1990s when Novell bought SVR4. But
> IT managers were too timid to change to UNIX.
>
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>
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