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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2004-07-15 : 10:30:04
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| Jason writes "We're having trouble deciding whether to run SQLServer2000 on box a or box b. a) four 400mhz Xeons with 2.5 gigs of ramb) two 1.4ghz Pentium IIIs with 1 gig of ram.Which would you recommend we use as our production server?" |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2004-07-15 : 10:58:33
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| Depends ... <g>How many databases?How big?How many transactions per hour?How many concurrent users?Is it all carefully hand optimised stored procedures, or crappy dynamic SQL?Apart from that, given a choice, I'd have the RAM over the faster CPUKristen |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2004-07-15 : 13:02:51
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| c) two 1.4ghz Pentium IIIs with 4 gig of ramTara |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2004-07-15 : 13:12:16
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| Hehehe ... Jason's only got 3.5 gigs of ram Tara !!Kristen |
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mr_mist
Grunnio
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Posted - 2004-07-16 : 02:58:36
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| RAM is cheap. Time is money. Buy more. ;)-------Moo. :) |
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