[dba-SQLServer] Big Databases

Lawhon, Alan C Contractor/Morgan Research alan.lawhon at us.army.mil
Fri Apr 15 09:07:42 CDT 2005


Don't feel so bad Arthur.  I have rarely (if ever) dealt with a
database,
(here at work), that was larger than 250 Mega-Bytes.

Alan C. Lawhon


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[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur
Fuller
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:59 AM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-SQLServer] Big Databases

According to a survey conducted by The Winter Corporation, the three 
largest databases in the world that run on Windows are all owned by 
comScore Networks. First place goes to their 8.9 TB database; second 
goes to their 8.3 TB database. Third place goes to their 7.3 TB
database.

All of them run on Sybase's ASE. All of them are used for consumer 
analysis. This data is fed into various web sites, and comScore reported

20 million hits against one db in January 2005. comScore clients include

AOL, Bank of America, Best Buy, Dell, Microsoft, Nestle, the US Postal 
Service and Verizon.

I feel firmly put in my place. I have never even cracked the 1 TB
ceiling!

Arthur

P.S.
For more on this company and its databases, see 
http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1035124



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