| Title: | Microsoft SQL Server Support | 
| Notice: | Please Registar, Note #11 | 
| Moderator: | AMCUCS::BETTS | 
| Created: | Tue Aug 23 1994 | 
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 382 | 
| Total number of notes: | 1233 | 
    
    I was looking for opinions on using segments in SQLserver 6.5. The MS
    documentation recommend's using RAID verse's segments. I guess i'm
    looking to duplicate the functionality of the Rdb storage areas,
    segments seem to be the closest thing. The database i'm working with 
    supports a revenue reporting application. Basically it has one very
    large table and several medium size tables. I would like to isolate the
    large table on a set off fast wide scsi disk's since it's the most active
    table.
    
    
    thanks,
    
    Peter
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| 361.1 | CSC32::HOEPNER | A closed mouth gathers no feet | Mon Apr 14 1997 08:12 | 11 | |
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    The only thing we have seen that is a concern with segmenting, is
    MAKE SURE YOU CAN RECOVER YOUR BACKUP.
    
    THere have been a couple of cases where we were able to restore 
    successfully a segmented database.
    
    Also for 'speed', consider hardware RAID 0+1 rather than RAID 5. 
    The performance is 10-20% better. 
    
    
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| 361.2 | EXCENT::MCCRAW | Tue Apr 15 1997 05:16 | 4 | ||
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    thanks, I think i'll just stick with RAID.
    
    Pete 
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