JMast
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Jeff,
You are correct that "spend more money" doesn't happen easily around here. Even though it doesn't seem like it from this thread, this is a very well run financially conservative company growing and gaining market share in a down economy.
Regarding license fees not part of the IT budget, where should they be? Even so, 50k every year strictly for Oracle maintenance for JDE is a huge chunk for a small company. For example, we could probably buy both a good forecasting package and a BI solution for that amount. We certainly could buy an archiving tool for that. Not to mention putting into servers and SANs!
As far as the system running out of space, that won't happen for quite some time. I think we have around 700 GB free on the data partition.
This brings me back to the topic of this post which was looking down the road at archiving for user perceived performance and maintenance. I have greatly appreciated all of your input even on the side trips.
I have briefly mentioned Colin's idea of SQL 2008 compression to my manager and he is definitely interested. I plan to show him this entire thread at some point so he sees all of your insights.
Jer
You are correct that "spend more money" doesn't happen easily around here. Even though it doesn't seem like it from this thread, this is a very well run financially conservative company growing and gaining market share in a down economy.
Regarding license fees not part of the IT budget, where should they be? Even so, 50k every year strictly for Oracle maintenance for JDE is a huge chunk for a small company. For example, we could probably buy both a good forecasting package and a BI solution for that amount. We certainly could buy an archiving tool for that. Not to mention putting into servers and SANs!
As far as the system running out of space, that won't happen for quite some time. I think we have around 700 GB free on the data partition.
This brings me back to the topic of this post which was looking down the road at archiving for user perceived performance and maintenance. I have greatly appreciated all of your input even on the side trips.
I have briefly mentioned Colin's idea of SQL 2008 compression to my manager and he is definitely interested. I plan to show him this entire thread at some point so he sees all of your insights.
Jer