hi ya richard On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
> Richard Soetan wrote: > > >please help > >Advice on how to design good performance for a database of 72GB planning to grow > >up to 778GB in the next two years nobody (very very few ) does a 10x growth in 2 years ... and if you did, you have the $$$ to justify going from x to 10x growth > >1. A database design to support the volumes, i.e. the separation of the physical > >files, layout of the database and so on. find the right places to cut things up and put it on different partitons, filesystems and backups > >2. Table and index partitioning. At the Phase 1 volume there are some tables > >between 5-10GB however going to Phase 2 these tables are in between 50-100GB. How > >do we best handle these tables, i.e. does SQL Server allow partitioning, should be > >looking at file groups and so on. sounds like fun ... fairly small db... > >3. Thoughts about the transaction log and it's management. make sure all db transactions are logged on at least 3 different PCs preferably in 2 or 3 different cities > >4. Thoughts about the temp DB and its management. always have a 2nd live copy of everything ... that can go live in 1 second by simply moving the ethernet cable form "backup switch" to the primary switch "management" ... let the person responsible do it their way ... its their gui prferences > >5. Database configuration parameters, i.e. memory setting, initialization > >parameters and the like. find out how many transactions per second you need to support and see what the vendor recommends for the necessary hardware and network > >5. What version of SQL Server do we have here, I'm assuming we need Enterprise > >Edition to accommodate a large memory allocation, i.e. > 2GB. use the super-dooper expensively priced outside consultants - if they !#$% ... you can fire them and blame um for everything > >pleaase help this is urgent hire a professional db hardware and sw integrator and reliability/manangement firm or people - you can learn to do all this yourself ... if you have 2-3 months to play and test all the different pieces you mentioned c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]