Re: BIG database problems

[bjordan@sover.net (bob jordan)]

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On Jan 24,  5:09pm, Michel Chamberland wrote:
> Subject: BIG database problems
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> Hi, im trying to create a online catalogue with 96000 items. at first i
> tried from ascii text.. no luck. Then i though i was asking a little bit
> too much of plain old text format so i stored the dataset in a oracle
> database. still no luck then i reduced that dataset to 2000 records in
> oracle still no luck. then i reduced it to 80 items then alala minivend
> starts working!
>
> When it doesnt work what happens is the web page sits there for a while
> and then i get a "document contains no data" pop-up. nothing is printed in
> error.log
>
> So im wondering if minivend will work with more than 80 records? what
> would be a realistic limit for the size of the database? Is there anything
> i can do to get this working much faster? Are there any alternative to
> minivend that could handle big databases better? i'm thinking of Oracle
> Internet Commerce Server right now but personnaly i like minivend, id like
> to stick with it if at all possible.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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>   Michel Chamberland
>   mike@xerxes.com
>   XERXES inc.
>   http://www.xerxes.com
>
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>-- End of excerpt from Michel Chamberland

I guess you haven't researched this in the list archives. . .

I personally know of 200,000 item ascii db's, and Mike has mentioned
1 million.  SInce you don't describe your system, you should
look at system resources or misconfiguration as your problem.

- bj
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