2009/4/13 Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen@etf.bg.ac.yu>:
> Hi all,
>
> First, thank you all for your answers.
>
>
> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> Give it a try, and please tell us what sort of application you want to
>> put on it.
>
> It is a student database for the college which is a client of ours. The size
> of the database should be around 1GB, half being binary data (images). Not
> more than 100 users at the time will be working with the application.
>
> I don't worry about the performance, but more about the maintenance under
> Windows. What file system to use? How to schedule vacuuming and backup? Are
> there any windows services that should be turned off? Those questions come
> to my mind when I consider new OS for the RDBMS.
NTFS, use autovacuum, backup nightly (?), Turn off anti-virus software.
