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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micro Question
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.014242.4665@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 90 01:42:42 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.154322.8894@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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From article <1990Nov14.154322.8894@mp.cs.niu.edu>,
by rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert):
>  Suppose you wanted a system to manage huge databases ... You couldn't
> tolerate the performance hit of the bottleneck caused by pumping all the data
> down an ethernet.
>  You just might find the mainframes a better solution than the workstations.

Or you might find yourself in the market for a distributed query
optimizer.  Sometimes working smarter pays.

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com