I thought that it was a decent article, and one very close to my heart as  our DB is currently 1.6TB and growing by 15-30 GB each and every week.

Not much content.

ERwin WAS a great product, BUT Computer Associates (CA) as is their business model, has not released even bug fixes since they acquired the product.  They have done new databases, but that's it.

If you have it, use it.  If not buy something else.

If you want to buy the rights from them and revitalize development of the tool, lots of people would love it.

Not promoting one tool over another but CA has done quite a bit for Erwin.  They even had a big focus on bug improvments to the point of holding off any improvements... I believe it was around release 4.14.  This made a big difference on bugs with RE and complete compares.  I'm not on the current release so I cannot make comments on it now.

As for the article, good article for a starting point on sizing issues with a database... as the title indicates.  I think the tools mentioned give some basic direction on where to go for further 3rd party help.  Listing out additional resources would have helped keep it from sounding a bit like an advertisement but it makes sense that you would focus on the ones you are familiar with.

Any plans for more indepth articles on the subject?

ds

Well, If you say so, it must be recent development however.  In Dec 2004 they were still on Version 3 which was the same as it had been 2 or 3 years before.

I met another DBA who worked for a company that got bought out by CA and after 3 or 4 years, they hadn't done any bug fixes.

I hope they do support it and improve it.

Sorry for being a year late.

I thought the title of this article was "Sizing a Database"... not an advertisement for some 3rd party software.

errr...ah...Where's the Beef? 

Reads like someone spent too much time playing video games and hurridly tossed the article together to meet a deadline...