Yes I did make a couple of assumptions

Er, I hope you didnt misunderstand me. My reply wasnt to your whole node or the analysis you offered, just more of a heads up to people that DB's are not the universal pancea for handling large volumes of data. (Not so much for you, as Im familiar with you and was confident you knew the caveats, but for other monks out there that might be tempted to bulk load a few million records just to sum one field in them.)

I find theres a tendency amongst DB'ish types to treat DBMS as the only way to solve problems. There are huge classes of problems where using a DBMS is a no brainer (transactions, distribution, integrity, locking etc), but there are also huge classes of problems where a DB is probably not the best solution.

As you said. Tools for tasks...

Anyway, im hoping this exchange opens one or two minds to alternate approaches which can only be a good thing.

Cheers, :-)


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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Force perl to release memory back to the operating system by demerphq
in thread Force perl to release memory back to the operating system by Roger

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