PC Memory/Data Bases -- MIDRANGE-L

Read these and then,
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>>Date: 4/25/97  4:08 AM
>>RE: Re: Download Data to Excel
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>>Just remember Excel95 and earlier can only hold about 16,000 records.
>>Excel97 can hold up to 64,000. More that that and you need Access,
FoxPro or other "real" pc database.
>
>>-Walden

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>Hey peoples;
>
>Just wondering, Does anyone know how much a "Real" pc database can
>hold?  1 million, 5 million records?
>
>John P. Carr CDP
>EdgeTech Inc.
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>I have DB2 for OS/2 and it says it is limited to 4,000,000,000 records
>(rows). I really haven't run into that limit yet.
>I does say that the maximum size of a table is 64GB. 
>Chris Rehm             | You have to ask yourself, "How

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>I regularly pump several million row tables through FoxPro 2.6, quite sure
>I've been over 10 Million once or twice.
>-Walden

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>Don't expect any help from Microsoft or IBM on this one.  There is a
>document in Microsoft's knowledge base which addresses this issue. 
>According to them the other guy did it.  Specifically, they say that you
>have bad RAM in your pc.  They say the bad RAM wont cause any problem in
>Windows 3.1 because they are 16 bit, but since Win95 is 32 bit, any
>slight imprefection in RAM will cause this message.  I am sure you
>guessed their solution.  Replace your RAM or better get a new shiny
>200Mhz MMX :-))
>Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net

etc. etc. etc.        you have seen the other posts on these.
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Well I guess that the PC data bases will handle a Million or more records,   
Now if only the PC plateform and its memory were stable enough to
trust............
By the way guys and gals,  How many "memory" errors on the AS/400 do you
remember
over the last 5 - 10 years ? ? ?   Just curious.    (68ns or were they 72ns
chips?)

I don't know why this reminds me of the Ed Sullivan shows where there was an act
of a guy
putting plates and spinning them on top of long sticks.  He would add more and
more sticks 
with plates and run back and forth to keep the existing sticks/plates  spinning
as he tried to add more.   
(Inevitably some of the sticks/plates would fall and we'd all laugh) ( I guess
I'm showing my age now but I was very very young then)

It seems just as we get one plate spinning on the PC stick(millions of records
in Data Bases) we got 
to hurry up and fix the other sticks(Memory problems/ Win95 upgrades, /driver,
driver whos got the 
driver,/ CA95/  etc)      But its nice to know that the consistent solution that
will always get recommended is that we get new sticks.

I guess I have a weird sense of humor.

John P. Carr  CDP
EdgeTech Inc. 





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