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


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