What is sizing in database?

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Database sizing helps you estimate the requirements for your database, anticipate capacity for growth, and plan disk requirements. Capacity planning and the steps to estimate the disk size your business requires are described in Database capacity planning and Disk estimation for Sterling Order Management.

What determines database size?

The size of your database depends on your application, as well as the number of users and items. A database containing the seed data supplied with the Movie Site application may use just 250 MB, while the LikeMinds tables for a large site with millions of users may take up 10 GB.

What is database growth rate?

Calculate the monthly growth rate by dividing the jobs per month by 10,000 and then multiplying by the database growth rate (i.e. for the internal DB this is 8.5MB for 10,000 jobs). So, 10,000 / 10,000 * 8.5 = 8.5MB/Month. Therefore in this situation the internal database will grow by approximately 8.5MB per month.

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The size of your database depends on your application, as well as the number of users and items. A database containing the seed data supplied with the Movie Site application may use just 250 MB, while the LikeMinds tables for a large site with millions of users may take up 10 GB.

Expert · Answer

Calculate the monthly growth rate by dividing the jobs per month by 10,000 and then multiplying by the database growth rate (i.e. for the internal DB this is 8.5MB for 10,000 jobs). So, 10,000 / 10,000 * 8.5 = 8.5MB/Month. Therefore in this situation the internal database will grow by approximately 8.5MB per month.

What is sizing in database?

What determines database size?

What is database growth rate?

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