Re: A question on Databases.
1999-06-17 09:01:33
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Re: A question on Databases. |
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Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> |
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Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:01:33 -0400 |
>it would seem to me that the only way you could gain from spreading the
>data base across different volumes, would be if there were several
>(parallel) queries to it, able to run concurrently to the different
>physical data sets.
There is a gain because the access is spread over multiple disk arms (and
hopefully I/O paths), as accessed by a server which is either multi-processed
or multi-threaded.
Richard Sims, BU
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