And always remember: at the end of all of these calculations you're going to hold your thumb up in front of your face and say, hmmmm, 20 GB sounds about right.
I've run the equation with real numbers and got huge databases. Sizes I knew that were too large. I'm a pretty strong advocate for taking a good first guess and growing if necessary. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Selva, Perpetua Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM & database planning [Selva, Perpetua] I was following the chapter 2, tsm implementaion planning to figure out the database size required for an upcoming project. however, the calculation based on the book doesn't seem to make sense with what's currently on my production system I have a client server with 1,000,000 files( from the select count(*) from backups where node_name=whatever) query, is this the right way? Please let me know Thx
