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James F. Valenti wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> DBA's have to do extra work when planning and configuring a VLDB.
> What, in your opinion, establishes a database as being Very Large these
> days?
> Is it size alone? Or is it a combination of size, level of concurrency,
> transaction rate?
> If it's size alone, where is the threshold? 10 GB, 100GB, TB's?
Every problem applying to normal DB are applicable to VLDB. Same old
story.
But with VLDB, just more measurement needed to undertaken.
Like Backup and Restore Strategy, small or large or VL, you have to do
that,
but just do it in different way.
Job and Task is same, the way of doing that is totally different.
Received on Mon Apr 07 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT