python and very large data sets???

[holger krekel]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:35:36AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> ?holger krekel? sagte am 2002-04-24 um 19:24:03 +0200 :
> > - setting up/configuring an appropriate database
> >   for the task (may not be easy)
> 
> Hm, I don't think so.  Setting up a basic MySQL server without any
> tunings is easy as pie, even on Windows.  But he'll of course need to
> know SQL, at least in some simple forms - but SQL knowledge is often
> needed, isn't it?

it is quite easy to set up a database e.g. for a website but 
is the same true if you have 100 GB of data being processed?
Easy as pie? Maybe i am underestimating mysql...

	holger