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Foil 43 Characteristics of DSS Workloads

From Second Part of RDBMS Discussion ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou


Few insert/update/delete transactions, read-only queries.
Non-selective & data-intensive; few in number, large in size
May return a large volume of data: e.g.: mailing list
Queries frequently scan a large percentage of the data in the database
Often used to mine data in a recursive, drill-down fashion



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