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When considering the development of a large system, one should ask the following
questions to any potential system designers / developers:
- What is their level of experience working with large databases (over 1/2 million
rows in a table)?
- Are they aware of the fact that tuning SQL and application/database design are
the most important issues when designing such a system? Have they ever tuned SQL?
If so, what tools have they used to perform this? What are the typical problems
that arise?
- Have they ever carried out any performance testing?
- Are they aware of methodologies used in designing a large database system?
- Have they seen a number of systems suffer from severe performance problems after
a period in production, due to poor design?
With Ice Pond Software the answer is YES to all these questions.
We know where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. A system designed and developed
by Ice Pond Software will have the following properties:
- STABILITY - System availability will be maximised.
- RESPONSIVENESS - will exceed the required response times.
- SCALABILITY - Increasing the number of users will have a minimal impact on performance.
- RECOVERABILITY - Ice Pond Software will ensure that solid Backup and
Disaster Recovery strategies are in place in the event of a disaster.
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