Re: [Exim] exim's databases and sql

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jerry Jorgenson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim's databases and sql
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jerry Jorgenson wrote:

> In my experience, most RDBMS projects are slow because the inital design
> of the database was not thought out well and/or the filesystems were not
> laid out correctly. Now I don't pretend to be the worlds greatest expert,
> but I've had the good fortune to have worked with a couple of people who
> would place in the top 100, and I've watched them take Oracle and make it
> fly (hours to sub second). So I don't have any doubt whatsoever that
> putting the appropriate items into a Oracle would provide a speed
> increase--perhaps as large as an order of magnitude.


I'm NO expert at all on RDBMS. :-) I'm listening to what people are
saying.

> Then there's the recoverablilty factor...


That at least is not an issue with retry hints, since they are just
hints.

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