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 Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/05/05 16:37 
helmut woess (hw@iis.at) writes: 
> In this special case i would think about using a table per week. There is 
> no faster way then DROP/CREATE or maybe TRUNCATE. You have to change a lot 
> in the way you work with this data, but you have UNION and maybe you can 
> use VIEWS.  
> Or you use a big Solid State Disk for your database :-)) 
 
Since one table per week becomes quite a job to manage, I would go for 
one table per month, and then truncate once per month. 
 
If this would be too much data, I would then try every tenth day. This 
makes it a lot easier to set up the check constraints for the partitions. 
 
 
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se 
 
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