On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:44 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00:
> > That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really
> > large actually?
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> I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially joking though) that a database is only
largewhen the size is measured in terrabytes :)
>
> So really, really large would mean something like 100 petabytes
>
>
> My personal opinion is that a "large" database has more than ~10 million rows in more than ~10 tables.
It entirely depends on workload and hardware.
Joshua D. Drake
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> Thomas
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