Partition on a Siebel database

  • Hello

    We have a 600 Gb Siebel 7.7 database that runs on SQL-Server 2000, of which one table uses 320 Gb for 140 millions rows. We are in the process of upgrading to Siebel 8.1 on SQL-Server 2008 and I am wondering if partitionning this table would be a good idea.

    Siebel uses a column called 'ROW_ID' as the primary key for each table, and performance drops if the key is not the clustered index; those keys are in a format like '1-0066DI8', and seem to be generated in sequence (same sequence for all the tables in the database)

    Has anyone ever tried to partition a table in a Siebel database? I haven't found any guidelines on the partitioning columns on a Siebel database

  • André Lozeau (10/13/2010)


    We have a 600 Gb Siebel 7.7 database that runs on SQL-Server 2000, of which one table uses 320 Gb for 140 millions rows. We are in the process of upgrading to Siebel 8.1 on SQL-Server 2008 and I am wondering if partitionning this table would be a good idea.

    Siebel uses a column called 'ROW_ID' as the primary key for each table, and performance drops if the key is not the clustered index; those keys are in a format like '1-0066DI8', and seem to be generated in sequence (same sequence for all the tables in the database)

    Has anyone ever tried to partition a table in a Siebel database? I haven't found any guidelines on the partitioning columns on a Siebel database

    More than often vendor's don't like the idea of customers messing around with the architecture of an application. I would contact Siebel's vendor, Oracle, you know.

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  • Some information available here

    There's a section on partitioning in this document - not too much information though and the recommendations there will need a whole bunch of testing and trade offs.

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