Hardware Upgradation

Hi,
We have a couple of applications running in different departments on their individual Database servers. Now we want to move all these databases and the applications onto one single server. What would the procedure to move these different databases into a new database server that we will be installing? If there are any documents on such situations kindly mention those as well.
Thanks
Varunraj Dhawan

Hi there
Specs:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01868492&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=emea_midd...
Go through page 1-2, 1-3 in this manual:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01720761.pdf
RAM: You can put MAX. two 4gb DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz RAM modules identical in all respects including Brand (Samsung, Hynix, Crucial etc are some examples)
HDD: Upto 500gb 7200rpm 2.5 inch SATA hard drive is tested compatible in laptop.
Page 3-9, 3-13 lists the HP part number for reference. Page 4-8 to 10 describes the replacement procedure which is simple.
This Crucial online scanner would also help in listing compatible upgrades:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/systemscanner
IMO You can also replace current 320gb HDD with 256gb SSD (would be costly compared to HDD, but dramatic performance boost would be obtained)
Related white paper: http://support.hp.com/emea_middle_east-en/document/c02435719/
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It can easily be you misunderstood my intention. It is somewhat like people often thinking that converting from a compressed format to a lossless format will restore the original quality. That is nonsense, because what has been thrown away during compression, can never be regained by uncompressing. That is an expectation similar to orange juice being uncompressed will restore the original oranges.
My intention with my remark was to emphasize that going from 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 will not restore original data or improve the image, only increase storage requirements.
But clearly that is not what you meant. You are talking about chroma keying and similar being best done on 4:2:2 or even better on 4:4:4 material. You are completely correct, but keep in mind, and that is what I tried to convey, is that starting out from 4:2:0 and upconverting to 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 will not restore original quality, it will still be (slightly less than) the 4:2:0 quality, because of the rounding errors in the algorithms. You will increase storage space significantly by this upconverting, but if you want to do any chroma keying, the quality of the keys will be significantly better than when performed on 4:2:0 material and the loss when again converting to 4:2:0 for final delivery will be significantly less than had you used chroma keys on 4:2:0 material.
I hope this explains it somewhat.

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