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  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    Just curious - have you looking into replicating stored procedure execution to cut down on the transaction volume?

    Absolutely, I was intending to write up an article on it. It...

  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    Paul White NZ (3/31/2010)


    Assuming the box is licenced per-processor, would you expect any advantage to running the separate distribution databases in separate instances?

    I'm not up to date with licensing requirements...

  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    Varies from

    Physical 8CPU 64bit W2K8 SQL2008 standard edition with 12GB RAM to

    Virtual 4CPU 32bit W2K3 SQL2005 Standard edition with 8 GB RAM.

    Mainly push subscriptions but pull used for...

  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    No offence taken.

    We have four production distributors two of which are virtual servers.

    We put roughly 24 billion transactions through them each day. We have spiked up to 370 billion...

  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    If you have everything hammering through one database you are talking about one transaction table having to deal with all transactions. Ditto the commands table.

    Try reindexing a very large...

  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    On one particular publication we changed the retention period to 3 hours because if something goes wrong with the subscriber then the transactions start building up in the distributor and...

  • RE: Scaling Out the Distribution Database

    It is very hard to say what "a certain size" is because it depends on the hardware and configuration of the machine that is acting as a distributor and also...

  • RE: updating 1,000 records takes 5-6 minutes I would like to decrease the time that takes

    And I thought I was hard done by because a 1.5 million record update took 15 seconds!

  • RE: Should We Lead or Follow?

    Thinking about Henry Ford's quote reminded me of the last model Ford Escort. Ford asked its customers what they wanted and out came something that showed the world that...

  • RE: Querying reserved words?

    Thanks,

    The IBM list gave a good jump start. It's just a shame that there isn't an inbuilt function that returns a table of these words.

    It would be great to...

  • RE: Denormalization Strategies

    If you denormalise the database where data it maintained you add to the cost of data maintenance tasks and you run the increased risk of being hit by bugs due...

  • RE: Randomizing Result Sets with NEWID

    I've done quite a bit of testing of NEWID() and randomness and it is a very effective random number generator.

    As the GUID comprises of blocks of hexadecimal these blocks can...

  • RE: Time Bomb Coding

    As with all things DBA related it depends.

    If you have a very large product set then adding in an extra column for the Top 'n' products wastes storage though in...

  • RE: Time Bomb Coding

    Jeff, there is a short and illuminating article on http://www.infoq.com http://www.infoq.com/vendorcontent/show.action?vcr=847 regarding technical debt in agile projects that echoes what you say.

    Basically a project team is given a fixed immutable...

  • RE: Time Bomb Coding

    Perhaps someone could confirm this for me but on the subject of right-sizing datatypes I gather that shrinking fixed length datatypes after creation makes a metadata change but not a...

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