Re: Normalization question

From: Erland Sommarskog <sommar_at_algonet.se>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:08:11 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Xns923BEB3D79DD2Yazorman_at_127.0.0.1>


Jerry Gitomer (jgitomer_at_erols.com) writes:
> Given the cost of disk storage space I think you would be
> better off optimizing for performance and ignore disk space
> consumption. As a DBA I have never heard users or management
> complain about needing more disks, but I have frequently heard
> complaints about performance.

Well, we have had complaints about backups and things like that taking too long time. And that kind of performance is indeed directly related to disk usage.

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Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 23:08:11 CEST

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