Accessing Archive Data

  • Hi All

    I am currently having a database of 130 GB which contains tables for 3 years, splitted by months table. this is been accessed by an application.

    The data file is on a RAID 5 Lun, and its a 64 bit SQL 2005 std edition.

    i am planning to split the data into db's for each year and tables for each month,

    Will this improve performance while accessing data from 3 db's and 3 tables instead of 1 db and 36 tables.

    Is there any thing else i can do to improve performance of data retrival from this database

    Cheers

    Suji

  • Have you looked into partitioning, or at your indexing strategy? I know SQL doesn't do parallelism when crossing partitions, but if you do them right, you shouldn't have to worry about that too much.

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