The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) wrote: > Hasnul, > >> My question is if there is a query design that would query multiple >> server simultaneously.. would that improve the performance? > > Not without a vast amounts of infrastructure coding. You're > basically talking about what Oracle has spent the last 3 years and > $100 million working on.
I recall a presentation from folks from Empress Software <http://www.empress.com/> back in about '94 or '95 offering this very feature as part of the "base functionality" of their product. I'm not sure it's quite fair to assess things as "more or less preposterous" simply because they prove ludicrously expensive to develop on a particular platform that happens to be targeted by even more ludicrous quantities of development dollars... On the other hand, it seems unlikely that "improved performance" would be one of the merits of this approach... -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="gmail.com" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/ Rules of the Evil Overlord #92. "If I ever talk to the hero on the phone, I will not taunt him. Instead I will say that his dogged perseverance has given me new insight on the futility of my evil ways and that if he leaves me alone for a few months of quiet contemplation I will likely return to the path of righteousness. (Heroes are incredibly gullible in this regard.) <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
