[dba-VB] What to do, what to do?

And believe me I look forward to the day.  And it will indeed be soon, of course the data sets get 
bigger as well.  ;)

I already have 16 gigs of RAM in my servers, and quad cores.  I could easily have 64 gigs and 16 
CPUs today if I had the bucks.

And of course you are correct as well, the Flash drives are wicked fast for working with large data 
sets.  They still have real issues when writing to them bot for reading they are an order of 
magnitude faster than rotating media.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Yes, I have just "theoretically" noted that in the near future you'll be
> able to EVEN MORE EASILY work with sets of millions (and billions?) records
> by just loading them into memory, "crunching", and saving back updated...
> 
> ... it will be just 1,2,3 instead of your today's (1,2,3) (1,2,3)... (1,2,3)
> (multi-threaded)...
> 
> ... the time just to develop (1,2,3) (1,2,3)... (1,2,3)... will be more
> expensive than time to develop and run 1,2,3 on the near future hardware
> (hardware costs included)...
> 
> --
> Shamil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:24 PM
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] What to do, what to do?
> 
> All of which is beside the point.
> 
> Divide and conquer.  A principal discovered by military strategists
> thousands of years ago, and 
> applied to problems of all sorts today.
> 
> I can EASILY work with sets of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of
> records.  In real life, 
> in my computer.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
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