From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:uqb360ls4udrhr6kl46h55fkq822m1u581{at}4ax.com...
> >I have 6 now and an empty 6 disk case so 12 in total. 1 for the system, 1
> >hotswap, so 10 to use for whatever I want basically. Should be a lot of
fun
> >
> >
> Cool, this should give you enough room to do stuff!

Yep, should open a whole bunch of new possibilities.


> You should use 2 for the transaction log, that leaves 8...
> probably 2 3-disk RAID5 arrays for the data and clustered
> indexes (each clustered index lives in the same data file as
> the table it belongs to), which means you can split up
> your 4 tables however works best,

Will have to play with that. There are some 200+ tables in total, but most
of the stuff runs in these 4 (or actually 5) tables.


> > I'm much too scared of how the current system
> > would handle errors like that. It's a real weird system.
>
> Do you have the source code for it?

After I threatened to resort to physical violence, they finally gave me
partial source code (their lead programmer is in Sweden, and at one phone
conference when I was a bit, eh..., tired, they said he couldn't help me
because he was in another country - I said well that's fine by me, it takes
me two hours to fly there to punch him in the face, and that I'd be
perfectly happy to do that and as a matter of fact I wouldn't mind smacking
the shit out of the rest of the bunch while I was at it - I know I know,
not exactly a polite approach but hey, it worked ). It's not the
actual engine part but all the business logic, which helps a lot - but it's
not documented code and there's a huge pile of it. Doesn't solve the
problem, but helps every now and then.


Antti Kurenniemi

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