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QUESTION POSED ON: 10 September 2007
What is grid technology (in terms of database)? Its advantages and disadvantages?


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Grid technology is the use if parallel processing to speed up database performance. The advantage with it is the speed with which it works. However, the disadvantage is complexity and cost.




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