Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Database Sizing

Interesting session about real world techniques to successfully size database components.

In summary there are four stages:

determine application service level agreements that the database has to meet

understand the i/o bandwidth limitation of the all the components (disk, fibre, switches networks..)

The final designs must be validated to the database is actually capable of scalin and for it to meet its availability and throughput targets.

And finally test test test.

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