Re: Table growth - disk sizing

I disagree.

Your storage vendor can certainly be relied on to give you an accurate prediction of your storage requirements for the next 5 years or so.

Jared

On 8/26/05, Gogala, Mladen <MGogala_at_allegientsystems.com> wrote:
>
> What I was trying to tell you is that the goal of your project can be
> qualified as BS. You are trying to predict the future based on number
>
> of transactions, instead of the historical growth information, like
> everybody else. That will not work. Allow me to jovially suggest coin
>
> toss, tea leaves, position of the stars or entrails of Oracle sales people
> as the next best methods.
> The only reliable extrapolation is linear approximation, based on
> historical
> data. Even this gives you only short time reliability. Everything else is
> BS.
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Ext. 121
>

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