Monday, December 3, 2007

The Philosophy of Database Administration

Q. If a table is updated by a recurring job but never read, does it take up space on the hard disk?

A. Not anymore.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Parthiv said...

Yes it surely takes up disk space to function the recurring job.

August 12, 2009 9:33 AM  
Blogger Mr. Shiny and New said...

Related question:
If a replicated database is too expensive to maintain because the replication creates too much load, will replication be turned off when the application no longer uses the replicated database?

August 12, 2009 10:15 AM  

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