RE: Unlimited size result sets

["Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>My Java person insists that she wants me to return 500k+
>rows of data to her in a result set. 

What's she smoking? Simply do the math:

    500,000 rows
x       200 bytes per row[1]
-----------
100,000,000 byes of data (100 MEG)

She wants to throw around 100Meg data structures in Java? Tell me this isn't
a web application where there will be multiple users doing this on a single
server, just think, 10 users would be a Gigabyte of memory just for the data
structure.

Next you'll tell me she wants to hold these structures in session objects.
<G>

-Walden

[1] Probably much higher, especially considering Unicode

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-----Original Message-----
From: Buck [mailto:buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:47 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Unlimited size result sets

Yes it's me again.  My Java person insists that she wants me to return 500k+
rows of data to her in a result set.  Those of us on the iSeries side think
this is not a good idea.  She says that this is how things work in the real
world (as opposed to a page at a time.)

In the interest of gathering benchmarking data, we'd like to try.  The catch
is the number of occurrences for a multiple occurrence DS.  The obvious
workaround is to base the DS on a pointer, which works great up to 16 megs.
But my result set is going to be much larger than that.  I can certainly
ALLOC more memory and use another DS, but I don't see any way to guarantee
contiguous memory, and without that I can't guarantee that the result set
will be right.
  --buck







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