At 12:56 PM 1/31/2001 +0000, simpor81@... wrote:

>The idea that I had whas that you could do all the transactons and
>som on in the memory and then, let's say every five minute to write
>the data to the harddrive.
>
>Maybe it was a crazy idea!

No, it's not a crazy idea. I know of someone who is working on
a multi-version database that keeps only the most recent committed
data on disk and manages all the multi-version stuff in memory.
If you have an uninterruptable power supply and lots of memory,
you probably could run the database that way. However, for any
reasonable sized database, writing the whole file out every five
minutes is going to be a serious performance drag.


Regards,

Ann
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