Design Considerations in Database Systems
This section will be applicable to you only if you have the luxury of building your database system from scratch. If you are starting with a blank sheet of paper, an empty computer room, and a bottomless bank account you can build a nearly ideal system.
Of course, an ideal system designed to spec today, delivered by the vendors in three months, and operable in 9 to 12 months will never be ideal when it goes into production. At current rates of hardware and software development, something new and better seems to come along every 3 to 4 months. So, the ideal system is just that, an ideal. System vendors themselves never have ideal systems, so why should you expect it for yourself?
In real life, you are ...
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