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I would disagree that this disk space is 'expensive'. Yes back when the
server was called an AS/400 it was expensive because the cost of OS/400
was built into the hardware. Today however disk is a commodity. The
disks in his server today can be had for roughly $200 per toss and he
has room for 6 of those maybe 7. This is roughly half the price of the
SAME drive for an xSeries server from CDW!
At that price ANY significant labor into this project will overshadow
the cost of disk almost immediately.
If you instead choose to copy the data to another server so that you can
do queries on it there you will not only be spending money on disk space
there for the appropriate indices, you will need enough disk for the
data, the operating system, work space etc. Then you'll need processor
I/O cards, network cards power supplies and cooling fans. You'll need
another maintenance contract and of course space to put it, electricity
to run it, cooling capacity, and of course administrative time as well.
Oh, and then in many cases the data isn't even spot current, it may be
as far back as yesterday.
Compared to all that, I'll stick with "Free."
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com
On 8/3/2013 3:10 PM, TheBorg wrote:
"DrFranken" wrote in message
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Of course as has been mentioned before appropriate indices can mitigate
a massive amount of I/O and oddly are Free!
Larry -
Great idea, but NOT "free" - they take up expensive IBM disk space...
-sjl
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