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"Bob Smith" <gatesucks_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We are designing an application that needs to use
> a relational database to hold quite a large amount
> of data.
>
> In particular there is one table that has about 33
> fields, 18 indexes, and 120 bytes per record.
> Additionally, we are going to need to add about 2
> million records per day to the table, delete about 2
> million records per day from the table, hold 2 weeks
> worth of data within the database (approx. 30 million
> records), and sustain an average add rate of about 23
> records per second while, at the same time, sustaining
> an average delete rate of 23 records per second.
>
> My questions are, what database software should we use,
> what kind of hardware platform will be needed to
> support the specifications enumerated above, and what
> kind of average query performance can we expect?
Additionally, we are going to need to add about 2 million records per day to the table, delete about 2 million records per day from the table
Please reconsider your design.
Regards
-- Sybrand Bakker Senior Oracle DBA to reply remove '-verwijderdit' from my e-mail addressReceived on Mon May 06 2002 - 12:12:13 CDT