Sybase Database Management

Question

Currently we are using Sybase DBs for Contract Manager.
Since they have given us no issue we stayed with them.
For those of you who use Sybase do
you archive projects?
Do you create new dbs
each year?
How large do you let them
get?
Should we move to SQL Server? <br
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Thanks

Answer 1

We also use Sybase for CM 11.1. About 8-12 months
agowe experienceed showstopping performance hits in
Contract Manager. After months of work with Primavera,
including very high level technical people on site,
Primavera tuned our databases to the point where CM
worked again. It was a very painful process.<br
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To answer your questions:<br
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For those of you who use Sybase do
you archive projects?
<font
color=red>Yes, to a database (group)that we use
specifically to store archived projects. This database
is started when the Sybase server boots so we can
access the archived projects as well a production
projects.</font><font
color=red></font>
Do
you create new dbs each year?
<font
color=red>No. The onlky consideration, at this
point, for creating a new database is for operational
purposes.</font><font
color=red></font>
How
large do you let them get?
<font
color=red>As large as they can get before hitting a
performance problem. Our largest is currently around
3GB. So far we have not had to split databases because
of performance. We resist doing that due to the
associated increase in overhead administering the
addn'l databases and cross database reporting
issues.</font><font
color=red></font>
<br
/>Should we move to SQL Server? <br
/><font color=red>If our IS shop were with us
on this, we would.</font><font
color=red></font>