Re: Distributed Vs. Centralized Database Approach

My own personal advice is to try everything use a single centralized database. You then avoid all kinds of issues, like data replication, reports which need data from multiple databases, ...

Daniel

coldfusion1998_at_yahoo.com (coldfusion) wrote in message news:<c6bc3b02.0310291126.78c48f64_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> I am trying to make a reccomendation for our database arch. We are
> currently debating on using a centralized database on one machine
> possibly having multiple instances or to use a distributed model have
> multiple servers and instances.
>
> Background:
> the application is a global application with a couple of hundred
> users. In the past couple of months the database grew to about 70,000
> records. Going forward as we add more modules to the application we
> want to try and figure out a strategy so that we can scale, and
> minimize performace problems down the road.
> Any opinions or ideas?
> Thanks
Received on Wed Oct 29 2003 - 17:32:25 CST