RE: FN-FORUM: dB growth

date posted 22nd September 2006 12:46

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> Sent: 22 September 2006 12:54
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> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: dB growth
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> On Thursday 21 Sep 2006 4:12 pm, Dave Fennell wrote:
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> > separate databases per customer.
>
> Asked a couple of mates about this last night, one of whom has a
> background
> in "Big Iron" [1]. He said "no".

I'm surprised to hear that the "Big Iron" guy said that. In the enterprise scale
situation separate databases give you an easy route to scalability. Too much
traffic on the database server? No problem, move customers M - Z to a new
server. Then as you scale, just repeat this binary chop to maintain database
throughput.

Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org/