Thread: PCLabs Survey, Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
- can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM
- replication - trigger approach or log-sniffer approach? - one-way (push) replication -
bi-directional(synchronize) replication
- remote administration - pager or e-mail notification of errors on remote server - administration tools
canmanage a remote database - administration tools can send jobs to groups of servers at once - can
delegateadministrative tasks (partial access to administration tools and jobs)
- can run stored procedures on remote system
- distributed transactions using two-phase commit - with other servers running this database server software
- with other servers running database server software from other companies (e.g. XA support)
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Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey, Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
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Michael Meskes
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:39:33PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > - can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM Why just Win95? How about a real operating system. :-) Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey, Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
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Dmitry Samersoff
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Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:39:33PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > - can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM > > Why just Win95? How about a real operating system. :-) IMHO, answer should be: Can run on laptop with 8m of RAM ;-)) (i.e just skip win95) I have such experience, OS - FreeBSD 2.2.6
Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey, Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
From
Michael Meskes
Date:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:20:57AM +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: > IMHO, answer should be: Can run on laptop with 8m of RAM ;-)) > (i.e just skip win95) I did the same (okay it wasn't a laptop) with my old 486DX40 with 8MB until the motherboard gave up. It even ran well when X was up and running. :-) Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!