Niall Litchfield apparently said,on my timestamp of 11/08/2004 8:52 PM: > Directories - read more frequently than written > Relational Databases - written more frequently than read. > > My experience of RDBMS systems is just the opposite. So do folk agree > with the generalisation abve, or do you consider databases to be a > read-mostly environment? > Read-mostly. By far. -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------