😀 yeah we tried to recruit Harry Potter as a DBA but we couldn't afford him:-P

Agree about the file size - from one of the blogs I read that, so we used files between 50gb and 70gb to make sure we were truly using io on disk rather than memory cache.

Good point to make though.

Interesting to hear from anybody else that has tested the alignment pre and post figures and how their implementations fared :unsure: