Ram requirements for 500 Gig database

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Ram requirements for 500 Gig database

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kshahzad
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Posted - 2013-07-17 : 17:00:21

My database size is 500 Gigabyte,

My Ram is 12 Gig

is that enough?

its using 10 Gig Currently

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2013-07-17 : 17:30:30

It depends. It's not something that we can answer. It's something you'll need to test. In an ideal world, you want the whole thing in memory. But if a lot of the data is historical and not used much, then that data won't be needed in memory.

It depends.

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