I've been using Oracle a long time now and Linux for a few less years and I've so far found Oracle 8i on Linux a stable and enjoyable experience - however, I have yet to base a real system on it. I've also toyed with Postgres under Linux, but after using Oracle for so long, it just doesn't compare.
I would say that tablesize going over 2Gb is not a problem. the tables go in tablespaces which can be made up of many datafiles.
PL/SQL is useful for fast and dirty code, but lacks a little to C for performance. If you can master it, Oracle Call Interface with 'C' will produce very fast code.
I'd also recommend reading a good book both on Oracle Design and on Tuning. There's a couple by O'Reilly, oddly enough.
There have always been different stories for Planet 'X', most of then disappeared when the Kuiper Belt started to be discovered. There was a story with Pioneer 10 earlier this year which had it suffering orbital peturbations from KB objects.
If it does exists, it's too far away for a probe with current technology.
I suppose they will call it Prosperine (Pluto's wife) as that appears to be widely used in SF for a tenth planet.
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I've been using Oracle a long time now and Linux for a few less years and I've so far found Oracle 8i on Linux a stable and enjoyable experience - however, I have yet to base a real system on it. I've also toyed with Postgres under Linux, but after using Oracle for so long, it just doesn't compare.
I would say that tablesize going over 2Gb is not a problem. the tables go in tablespaces which can be made up of many datafiles.
PL/SQL is useful for fast and dirty code, but lacks a little to C for performance. If you can master it, Oracle Call Interface with 'C' will produce very fast code.
I'd also recommend reading a good book both on Oracle Design and on Tuning. There's a couple by O'Reilly, oddly enough.
There have always been different stories for Planet 'X', most of then disappeared when the Kuiper Belt started to be discovered. There was a story with Pioneer 10 earlier this year which had it suffering orbital peturbations from KB objects.
If it does exists, it's too far away for a probe with current technology.
I suppose they will call it Prosperine (Pluto's wife) as that appears to be widely used in SF for a tenth planet.