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Thread Creating indexes - looking for a silver bullet
Fri, Mar 23 2007 1:45 AMPermanent Link

Dave Harrison
Ralf Mimoun wrote:

> Dave Harrison wrote:
> ...
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>>     Your compression is just 20% of the original, pretty darn good.
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> More exactly, it's 13% or less SmileBut the honor goes to Ray and his
> suggestions about preparing the text, and to SuperCache II.
>
>> Just out of curiosity, have you tried putting it all on a CD-ROM or
>> DVD to see how fast it is? DBISAM will automatically open the table as
>> readonly so it will buffer the contents pretty good. A while back I
>> was able to compress my .exe file and put it on a floppy disk with a
>> DBISAM database containing images. Worked great. Smile
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> Sorry, but the application needs write access to other tables. But I am
> sure that it will be fast enough.
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> Ralf

Ralf,
     I forgot to mention, I also put my DBISAM app on a thumb drive.
Just plug it into the computer's USB port and its up and running. Zero
footprint install. USB drives are now 4gb at around $100 or less. 8gb
USB drives are out now too. It's great for demoing the software.

Dave
Fri, Mar 23 2007 5:43 PMPermanent Link

"Ralf Mimoun"
Dave Harrison wrote:
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> Ralf,
>      I forgot to mention, I also put my DBISAM app on a thumb drive.
> Just plug it into the computer's USB port and its up and running. Zero
> footprint install. USB drives are now 4gb at around $100 or less. 8gb
> USB drives are out now too. It's great for demoing the software.

No news for me SmileOne of our systems is running on relatively huge servers:
dual xeons with RAID5 (I told them that I only need a computer from a
discounter, maybe dualcore with 1 GB RAM, but such companies need to spend
money). Exactly the same thing runs on a USB drive for demos.

USB drives are great because the access time is negligible. But the
throughput is not that good, my stripe set together with that cache software
beat them hands down.

Ralf
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