Managing Monster Tables
Roy Hann, first presented at Ingres World 1999, New Orleans

 

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This three-part presentation discusses the problems associated with managing very large tables. The first part of the presentation describes problems that are caused by very large tables, and defines what is meant by the term "too big" in practical terms. The second part of the presentation describes how to cope with tables that are necessarily very big. The third part describes how to reduce the size of big tables that don't really need to be big.

The presentation is in the form of 70 slides in Microsoft PowerPoint Version 7.0 for Windows 95, zipped to 77kb and inflating to 326kb.

Topics

>> Identifying tables that are "too big"
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Deciding if a table is big for a good reason
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Coping with tables that need to be big
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Cutting needlessly big tables down to size
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Comments on cache tuning and big tables
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