Posted by pheonix1t on 10/01/99 11:18

hello,
I've been assigned to do performance tuning on an SQL2000 database
(around 10GB in size, several instances).
So far, I see a single RAID5 array, 4CPU (xeon 700MHZ), 4GB RAM.

I see the raid5 as a bottleneck. I'd setup a raid 10 and seperate the
logs, database and OS(win2k).

The one thing that was a bit odd to me was that I was told this place
doesn't use indexes. The company is a house builder. They are pretty
large.

The IT manager isn't a programmer so she couldn't explain to me why no
indexes are used. She told me the programmers just don't use indexes.

Before I start investing more time on this, I'd really like to learn
about why you wouldn't want to use indexes - especially on such a large
database!

Thanks,

Oskar

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