OK, your database is growing fast. At some point you will find that performance is going to start to blow and you need to do maintenance (i.e. rebuild indexes). This will be a problem. You need to look at your application design and think about archiving data. ALternatively buy Oracle and read up on partitioned tables.
I wouldn't have thought it necessary to change your RDBMS because of poor JDBC drivers - but then the problem is that MS do not supply the SQL Server ones themselves, cos they're still sulking about Java.
Oracle is complex, but so is any serious RDBMS these days. SQL Server is too - they just have a bunch of GUI tools that are supposed to simplify things. Although it pains me to tell you this I expect SQL Server could cope with your needs at the moment - you just need to start tuning and looking at your storage in detail.
Firstly, niether Oracle or MS post meaningful stats. Both of them require you to make a non-disclosure agreement with them - you are not allowed to reveal benchmarks.
Secondly, there are the TPC benchmarks, but take them with a huge pinch of salt. They are not about what the average IT shop can produce - they are about what hordes of MS/Oracle/IBM/Sun/Compaq engineers can produce with enormous budgets. They are also about finding the latest loophole in the TPC rules.
Thirdly, Oracle, at least allow you to download their RDBMS to try it for yourself - and that is exactly what you should do.
I wouldn't worry too much about limits on the number of rows in tables etc. unless you are storing absolutely obscene amounts of data - more than supermarkets in the UK who keep records of every purchase made with loyalty cards etc.
It might be referring to the power unit pricing scale. There are two licensing scales - one based on the capacity of your hardware, the second based on the number of 'named ' application users.
There may be a 25k license for a certain (large) number of named users - visit the Oracle store to compare prices - it's at their website.
Are you aware of the Linux Sound & MIDI site? (There is also a European mirror) It's the best collection of links to Linux music-related software and documentation I've found.
It's a slim book that concisely covers many ways of structuring your code (including OO): Title: Essence of Program Design, 1/e Author: Doug Bell, Sheffield Hallam University Publisher: Prentice Hall Copyright 1997, 200 pp. ISBN 0-13-367806-7
I would give you a link to the publisher's page, but it doesn't have any more information.
If anyone wants one, go to the Netherlands. They have shitloads. I'm just kicking myself, 'cos I didn't think to bring any back to the UK and sell them for extortionate prices.
Plenty of people have noticed that Microsoft's system uses a (Windows)Registry key to store date/time stamps and that Linux/[Insert other OS here] does not have a registry as part of the OS.
Yeah, you noticed that too:). But I reckon it could mean one of two things:
Microsoft's patent covers using some sort of hierarchical database to store the timestamps. This means their patent has been worded badly, because it might mean that in reality...
Microsoft's patent only covers systems that use the Windows Registry. That will definitely rule out apt, RPM and pals, but might affect some companies releasing Windows Software.
The US Patent office worry me, but not that much, because I live in the UK. Unfortunately I heard somewhere that in future there might be a reciprocal patent agreement between Europe and the US. Oh great.
Maybe it has not occurred to you that there are valid reasons for using the internet to obtain your tracks in MP3 format? For instance I write from the UK, where typically your albums would be released several weeks after the US release. (And at a vastly increased price, but that's not the issue). While I waited to buy the CD I might download the MP3.
Perhaps in some countries, where your songs are banned, the internet allows people access to them. Is that not protecting your rights as an artist to be heard?
I understand the suit only names US Napster users at the moment. I guess I'll just wait to be sued when you get around to it.
You clearly have the resources to protect your rights. How might you advise other artists who are less established, less wealthy or less talented, but still want to fight for the same "principles".
Surely these people stand to lose more than you? After all, they might actually need the money.
If anyone shows me an actual real company running Linux on a S/390, AS/400 or any other old school IBM bit of kit in a production environment in the next 5 years I will personally eat an AS/400 9406-720.
Challenge accepted. Post your email address. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would enjoy seeing pictures of you munching server hardware.
I have several ideas for how we can use this at our site. At the moment everyone is busy trying to migrate everything they can find OFF the big iron. These are the people who used to be conservative, but they are caught in some sort of love affair with NT and PCs. The stampede will stop in a year or two.
Actually they are obliged to let the government listen in (may only be UK). I think they had to change the system to allow snooping.
Sketchy memories of an article I read a couple of weeks ago, implying that it was actually a quite difficult change to make to the system. My heart bleeds.
According to this document they start having to replace satellites from around May 2002! (5-8 years working life, first launch May 1997) Someone check my details.
That will bite deep into anyone's budget. I would like to see this work, but I don't think they will get the funds.
This seems like another case of traders, who don't understand the technologies and markets involved, not wanting to be "left out".
They should be asking themselves key questions like "How many competitors does this company have?" rather than "How many buzzwords do they have in their press-releases?".
I have no issue with Caldera (or with other people gambling their money). lastminute.com (In the UK) is a good example of people losing touch with common sense (and now losing touch with their money).
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OK, your database is growing fast. At some point you will find that performance is going to start to blow and you need to do maintenance (i.e. rebuild indexes). This will be a problem. You need to look at your application design and think about archiving data. ALternatively buy Oracle and read up on partitioned tables.
I wouldn't have thought it necessary to change your RDBMS because of poor JDBC drivers - but then the problem is that MS do not supply the SQL Server ones themselves, cos they're still sulking about Java.
Oracle is complex, but so is any serious RDBMS these days. SQL Server is too - they just have a bunch of GUI tools that are supposed to simplify things. Although it pains me to tell you this I expect SQL Server could cope with your needs at the moment - you just need to start tuning and looking at your storage in detail.
Firstly, niether Oracle or MS post meaningful stats. Both of them require you to make a non-disclosure agreement with them - you are not allowed to reveal benchmarks.
Secondly, there are the TPC benchmarks, but take them with a huge pinch of salt. They are not about what the average IT shop can produce - they are about what hordes of MS/Oracle/IBM/Sun/Compaq engineers can produce with enormous budgets. They are also about finding the latest loophole in the TPC rules.
Thirdly, Oracle, at least allow you to download their RDBMS to try it for yourself - and that is exactly what you should do.
I wouldn't worry too much about limits on the number of rows in tables etc. unless you are storing absolutely obscene amounts of data - more than supermarkets in the UK who keep records of every purchase made with loyalty cards etc.
It might be referring to the power unit pricing scale. There are two licensing scales - one based on the capacity of your hardware, the second based on the number of 'named ' application users.
There may be a 25k license for a certain (large) number of named users - visit the Oracle store to compare prices - it's at their website.
Are you aware of the Linux Sound & MIDI site? (There is also a European mirror) It's the best collection of links to Linux music-related software and documentation I've found.
Here's their Music Notation page.
If they still don't stop mailing you make up your own envelopes with their account code / freepost address on. Send as many as you can!
It's a slim book that concisely covers many ways of structuring your code (including OO):
Title: Essence of Program Design, 1/e
Author: Doug Bell, Sheffield Hallam University
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright 1997, 200 pp.
ISBN 0-13-367806-7
I would give you a link to the publisher's page, but it doesn't have any more information.
Worth at least finding out if your library has it
Freshmeat has a development environment section:m ents.html
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/environ
Here you will find Code Crusader, a CodeWarrier look-alike. Never used it, but there are some favourable comments on freshmeat.
If anyone wants one, go to the Netherlands. They have shitloads. I'm just kicking myself, 'cos I didn't think to bring any back to the UK and sell them for extortionate prices.
No, it doesn't! PGP uses proprietary patented algorithms. GPG doesn't, never has and never will. THAT'S why it's superior to PGP.
If you refer to RSA then
Yeah, you noticed that too :). But I reckon it could mean one of two things:
- Microsoft's patent covers using some sort of hierarchical database to store the timestamps. This means their patent has been worded badly, because it might mean that in reality
... - Microsoft's patent only covers systems that use the Windows Registry. That will definitely rule out apt, RPM and pals, but might affect some companies releasing Windows Software.
The US Patent office worry me, but not that much, because I live in the UK. Unfortunately I heard somewhere that in future there might be a reciprocal patent agreement between Europe and the US. Oh great.Perhaps in some countries, where your songs are banned, the internet allows people access to them. Is that not protecting your rights as an artist to be heard?
I understand the suit only names US Napster users at the moment. I guess I'll just wait to be sued when you get around to it.
Surely these people stand to lose more than you? After all, they might actually need the money.
I have several ideas for how we can use this at our site. At the moment everyone is busy trying to migrate everything they can find OFF the big iron. These are the people who used to be conservative, but they are caught in some sort of love affair with NT and PCs. The stampede will stop in a year or two.
Sketchy memories of an article I read a couple of weeks ago, implying that it was actually a quite difficult change to make to the system. My heart bleeds.
According to this document they start having to replace satellites from around May 2002! (5-8 years working life, first launch May 1997) Someone check my details.
That will bite deep into anyone's budget. I would like to see this work, but I don't think they will get the funds.
They should be asking themselves key questions like "How many competitors does this company have?" rather than "How many buzzwords do they have in their press-releases?".
I have no issue with Caldera (or with other people gambling their money). lastminute.com (In the UK) is a good example of people losing touch with common sense (and now losing touch with their money).