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"Stephen Ferracioli" <ferracioli_at_101freeway.com> wrote in message
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> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
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> > Then why did you post looking for information?
> > Jim
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> Just want to be see if there were compelling reasons for me to make an
> effort to convince them otherwise. Haven't really found anything too
> compelling. At this point is an executive were to ask me if I have any
> doubts about it, I'd say that my biggest concern would be a worm program
> attacking a production database system. But no matter what I do, I'm
afraid
> that I will be perceived as just trying to save my own job. Their
production
> database is around 100Gb right now and growing around 1Gb per week. The BW
> data warehouse is around 40Gb and will probably double in size within a
year
> as more subject areas are brought in.
My biggest concern would be scalability and reliability of sqlserver at those sorts of data volumes.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UKReceived on Fri Jun 06 2003 - 05:54:30 CDT