Re: Data Modelling

From: <hfs1+_at_pitt.edu>
Date: 1997/02/18
Message-ID: <330A3778.74DD@pitt.edu>#1/1

Eric Hansen wrote:

> >The main issue is data modelling. Can anyone tell me how much disk space
> >I will need for a database which wil house 27,000,000 variables? The
> >majority will be numeric with about 1/3 string.
>
> That isn't much to go by. How big are the variables? How big are the
> strings? How many rows and columns are you looking at?

There will be 3000 colomns and about 9000 rows. String variables will be maximum of 40 in the event that someone has a hyphenated name. The other, numeric variables, will be somewhere in the order of 2-5 digits long. Received on Tue Feb 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CST