Get a better computer to run it on.... in teh long-term -- that will be your
best investment....
<v.demartino2@virgilio.it> wrote in message
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> On a 128MB RAM, 450 MHz pentium 3 server with linux gentoo and postgresql
> 7.4.6 on an office lan we can manage satisfactorily a db containing few
> tables with a cumbersome amount of data (each table is around 650 thousand
> records with 98 columns) relating to the year 2002.
> We use M$-Access and ODBC to access those data.
> Now similar data and amounts of records for the year 2003 need to be
> added.
> Then queries to contrast 2003 data vs. 2002 ones will be needed.
>
> In view of the poor hardware at our disposal, is it better from the
> standpoint
> of efficiency to:
>
> 1) Create a new database for 2003 with the same structure of that for
> 2002;
> 2) Appending new 2003 data to 2002 data in the same tables;
> 3) Creating in the original database new, separate tables to contain data
> for 2003.
>
> Thanks
> Vittorio
>
>
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