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> one for databases as a DB guy, there's no 'one task' for DBs . The only thing I can think that is nearly characteristic of DBs I've worked on is that they're
by tempguy9999 7y ago
> one for databases
as a DB guy, there's no 'one task' for DBs . The only thing I can think that is nearly characteristic of DBs I've worked on is that they're IO bound.
That's possibly true of most things except Floating point and graphics.
- snaky 7y agoWhile that's true, you can achieve impressive results offloading particular parts of particular DBMS code to the specialized CPUs, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0/perf/src/tpc/db2z_ibmziip.html https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0...