Re: At what point does a big table start becoming too big?

On 23/08/12 11:06, Nick wrote:
> I have a table with 40 million rows and haven't had any performance issues yet.
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> Are there any rules of thumb as to when a table starts getting too big?
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> For example, maybe if the index size is 6x the amount of ram, if the table is 10% of total disk space, etc?
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I think it would be good to specify the context.

For example:
The timeliness of a database required to support an ship based 
anti-missile system would require far more stringent timing 
considerations than a database used to retrieve scientific images based 
on complicated criteria.

The size of records, how often updated/deleted, types of queries, ... 
would also be useful.

Unfortunately it might simply be a case of "It depends..."!


Cheers,
Gavin