dave@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (David J. Buscher) (06/19/91)
Subject: Address Label Application on SCO Unix - 80486 Newsgroups: comp.databases Distribution: usa A 33 MHz 80486 running SCO Unix has been proposed as a platform for an address label application in a production shop. Database currently has about 200,000 addresses and each address can have up to 100 5 digit type codes associated. A label run involves an OR match with any of these 100 codes from a list of up to 40 selection codes. If there is any match between these two lists the address is selected. After all addresses are selected they must be sorted in zipcode order, statistics must be printed on the number of addresses with 3 digit zipcode prefixes and labels must be formatted for 4-across printing on a line printer. There may be from 3 to 6 simultaneous requests for label runs or up to 16 users may be updating the database concurrently. Is the proposed configuration up to such a task and are there any recommendations for a database system. Apparantly SCO Desktop comes bundled with Ingres, so that might be an obvious choice. Please e-mail any comments.