Performance with large number of records

  • Our customer table holds approx 5,000 records. Marketing would like to offer a free trial of our product which requires registration. They expect up to 250,000 registratnts. Is it best to seperate the data into two tables for performance or is 250,000 records still a small number for MS SQL Server 7.0 to handle. I would prefer to have a single table with a field id to seperate leads from customers.

  • It is quite samll number. I have a table in size 70GB and over 73 Millions records.

  • Hi geocash,

    quote:


    Our customer table holds approx 5,000 records. Marketing would like to offer a free trial of our product which requires registration. They expect up to 250,000 registratnts. Is it best to seperate the data into two tables for performance or is 250,000 records still a small number for MS SQL Server 7.0 to handle. I would prefer to have a single table with a field id to seperate leads from customers.


    it is a small number.

    I would also prefer a single table, for not registrants are automatically customers (don't let marketing hear that!), but could easily be moves or transformed when buying your product

    Cheers,

    Frank

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • Hi geocash,

    quote:


    Our customer table holds approx 5,000 records. Marketing would like to offer a free trial of our product which requires registration. They expect up to 250,000 registratnts. Is it best to seperate the data into two tables for performance or is 250,000 records still a small number for MS SQL Server 7.0 to handle. I would prefer to have a single table with a field id to seperate leads from customers.


    it is a small number.

    I would also prefer a single table, for not registrants are automatically customers (don't let marketing hear that!), but could easily be moved or transformed when buying your product.

    Cheers,

    Frank

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

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