Re: [PERFORM] DB Design

2004-05-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The complete answer is probably "it depends", but this does not help much...:-) I would try out the simple approach first (i.e one 50 million row table), but read up about : i) partial indexes and maybe ii) clustering iii) think about presorting the data before loading to place "likely to be a

Re: [PERFORM] DB Design

2004-05-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:37 +0800, Michael Ryan S. Puncia wrote: > Hi Guys, > > > > My question is .. which is better design > > > > 1. Single Table with 50 million records or > 2. Multiple Table using inheritance to the parents table It's not that simple. Given your e-m

[PERFORM] DB Design

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Ryan S. Puncia
Hi Guys,      My question is .. which is better design   Single Table with 50 million records or Multiple Table using inheritance to the parents table     I will use this only for query purpose ..   Thanks ..