On May 6, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> Yeah, in that case the HOT suggestions are very important.  I strongly
> recomment you experiment in a test system with real data and
> pathological cases in particular, in order to see what happens when
> the outlier cases inevitably, Murphy willing, crop up.  That's not to
> say you should arrange your plans for them, but forewarned is
> forearmed.

Again thanks. The HOT tip led me down the road of paying attention to my 
indexes, which led me to a nice realization about how to shrink the overall 
footprint of the materialized aggregates ;-) Which led me to a technique to 
seriously minimize updates...

I didn't have to worry about bloat too much--overall activity level is not 
huge; the possibility of collisions on updates is mostly because users tend to 
work on the same very small (but ever-shifting) subset of the data at the same 
time, but now I think I'm really set!

-- 
Scott Ribe
scott_r...@elevated-dev.com
http://www.elevated-dev.com/
(303) 722-0567 voice





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