Determining Hardware Requirements

Abstract

This chapter consists of tasks that don’t play a large role in database design, and therefore aren’t normally considered part of the data architect’s remit. However, now that you’ve physically implemented your design, you have some idea of the volume of data the hardware will be required to handle. In considering these requirements, the rest of this chapter is a primer rather than a complete reference for such matters, because you won’t always have the luxury of database administration staff to handle them.