>What kind of database products do the big web sites use?
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>Currently we use SQL Server but we rarely go over 135,000 hits in one day. Soon we expect to start adding zeros to that and I've been asked to help "pick a product"
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>Does anyone here manage a database that has very high access rate?
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>My head is always buried in VFP and SQLServer and I have no knowledge of other products.

I have about 100000 hits per day and use Visual FoxPro as the backend engine.

Even if you have to use Client/Server, you still need to use a backend engine to connect to the Client/Server. So, just use Visual FoxPro and if that time come, you'll have a very good frontend engine already in place.