[AccessD] Every 100th record

For the record I think it was me who applied the term VLDB to his db
:D.  Even thow I've been my dept's DBA for the last 3 years, I have
not run into any company database that touches the Millions of
records, the only tables that I have that contain a near enough number
of consequential tables, (auditing)


On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:32:55 -0400, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote:
> Just to put things in perspective, JC, the first client of the people
> who developed MySQL had 60M rows in their principal table. There are
> lots of apps way bigger than that. I once had a client that was adding
> 10M rows per month to the table of concern (this was an app recording
> seismic activity from several hundred meters). I must caution you that
> you should not use the term VLDB as loosely as you have been using it.
> You don't know the meaning of VLDB -- not yet at least. You're beginning
> to appreciate the turf, however. Once I bid on a project that had 100M
> rows each containing a graphic file. Not to say that size is everything,
> but IMO VLDB comprises at least a TB, and often many hundreds of TBs.

-- 
-Francisco