Maximum size of table?

SQL20 Ent SP3 WIN2K Adv SP3
I'm hoping for some guidance here.
I've a single table with 184,000,000 rows, I think this is probably
a good candidate for some kind of partitioning.
My question is, how many rows would constitute a decent sized
table, before partitioning?
I know it's a very subjective question and depends on row size
database size and others, but any opinions would be most welcome.It's more on what you do with the data and how you access it. Explain a
little of how you access this table and we can give a better answer.
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Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"Stressed" <k@.c.co.uk> wrote in message
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> SQL20 Ent SP3 WIN2K Adv SP3
> I'm hoping for some guidance here.
> I've a single table with 184,000,000 rows, I think this is probably
> a good candidate for some kind of partitioning.
> My question is, how many rows would constitute a decent sized
> table, before partitioning?
> I know it's a very subjective question and depends on row size
> database size and others, but any opinions would be most welcome.
>|||Sorry,
In addition to the previous, Data Junction is used to load the data, query
analyzer is used by our analysts to query the data.
"Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@.shadhawk.com> wrote in message
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> It's more on what you do with the data and how you access it. Explain a
> little of how you access this table and we can give a better answer.
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly
> SQL Server MVP
>
> "Stressed" <k@.c.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:uIKG5g7SDHA.2248@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > SQL20 Ent SP3 WIN2K Adv SP3
> >
> > I'm hoping for some guidance here.
> >
> > I've a single table with 184,000,000 rows, I think this is probably
> > a good candidate for some kind of partitioning.
> >
> > My question is, how many rows would constitute a decent sized
> > table, before partitioning?
> >
> > I know it's a very subjective question and depends on row size
> > database size and others, but any opinions would be most welcome.
> >
> >
>|||When you do these updates right after you import the data does it involve
any of the previous rows or just the new ones? How about the subsets, are
they created only from the new data? Sounds like you work mainly with
blocks of data, maybe by date. If that's true then you may consider
partitioning the data by date (weeks, Month, quarter etc) so it's easier to
work with only the relevant data. If you do keep it in a single table then
make sure you have a clustered index on the column(s) that will allow you to
differentiate the current data. Otherwise you may be scanning the entire
table over and over for these updates and queries.
--
Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"Stressed" <k@.c.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thanks for taking the time to reply.
> Table is used in a warehousing type environment. Initially a bulk load,
> then incremental loads, approx once a month. Once the load has taken
> place a series of updates are performed, following that, the table is
> used to create subsets of data in another database, for shipping to our
> client sites for review.
> In short, much loading, some updating, much querying.
> I hope this gives a reasonable insight.
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@.shadhawk.com> wrote in message
> news:ehcR3u7SDHA.2148@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > It's more on what you do with the data and how you access it. Explain a
> > little of how you access this table and we can give a better answer.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Andrew J. Kelly
> > SQL Server MVP
> >
> >
> > "Stressed" <k@.c.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:uIKG5g7SDHA.2248@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > SQL20 Ent SP3 WIN2K Adv SP3
> > >
> > > I'm hoping for some guidance here.
> > >
> > > I've a single table with 184,000,000 rows, I think this is probably
> > > a good candidate for some kind of partitioning.
> > >
> > > My question is, how many rows would constitute a decent sized
> > > table, before partitioning?
> > >
> > > I know it's a very subjective question and depends on row size
> > > database size and others, but any opinions would be most welcome.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>