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From: tom@litle.COM (Tom Hampton)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Relational Databases with static portions?
Message-ID: <629551370.tom@litle.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 11:22:50 GMT
Reply-To: tom@litle.COM (Tom Hampton)
Organization: Litle & Co.
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We are under the impression that Oracle and others
make it hard to create a relational environment with
active and static parts.  You may ask why we would 
want to do this -- the answer is backups.  If we 
can back up the bulk (8 gigabytes) of our data to 
tape or WORM and only back up the most recent, active
data we have saved ourselves a huge pain in the neck.

We also understand that because Ingres works through the
UNIX file system, generating an active/statis system with
Ingres might be easy with Ingres.

-> Can other RDBMS vendors make it easy to have active and 
   static parts?


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Tom Hampton                                    tom@litle.com
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