Darren New wrote:

> It was funny, tho. I read someone talking about all the "nosql" 
> databases, and how people were complaining SQL doesn't "scale".  He said 
> "SQL scales fine. What the people mean is that SQL doesn't scale if you 
> want to use a commodity piece of hardware like Amazon rents. This is 
> what we have in my office for testing:" and gives the stats on a 96-CPU 
> 256G RAM SQL processor. He says "That's the low-end base machine for 
> testing, not the production system."

Presumably that's not x86 though.

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