Re: Data Storage Issue (Basic Issue)

Mark Space wrote:
> Eric Sosman wrote:
>> Lew wrote:
>>> In this case, no.  If you read up on Oracle's direct-disk management 
>>> it is not dumb, nor is its file-system interaction.  None of the big 
>>> players are stupid with file-system access, be they Oracle, DB2, 
>>> Postgres or whomever.  [...]
>>
>>     I see you've not encountered Lotus "databases" ...
> 
> Just out of morbid curiosity, does anyone know where MS SQL Server falls

> on this spectrum?

Oracle DB, IBM DB2, MS SQLServer, Sybase ASE all sup****t databases
both in file system and on raw partitions.

I don't thing raw partitions are much used for MS SQLServer. It is
in many ways a *nix thingy.

Arne