Peter De Berdt wrote: > On 19 Sep 2010, at 21:03, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > >>> Although we could scope everything on the customer, but given the >>> total amount of data involved across all accounts, it would have a >>> dramatic impact on performance over time, even with proper indexes. >> >> What makes you think so? A good DB should be able to handle this with >> minimal performance impact. > > It's called performance and stress tests.
Would you mind sharing some of what you found? I'd be very curious. > >>> Also, since we are storing the data of direct competitors (our >>> customers are in the same market segment in our already small >>> country) >>> we found that during presales the question about keeping data >>> separate >>> always arose. >> >> And you just need to tell your customers that you do so. How you do >> it >> is none of their business. > > Once you start working with the budgets and contacts they work with, > it becomes their business, or it's no business for us. The SaaS client does not get to dictate implementation. Period. The custom software client *might* -- at a higher price tag. > I'm guessing > you don't work with Microsoft SQL Server for fun either. Different situation. I came inboard a development team where MS SQL server was already in use. I love the job otherwise, so I'm willing to put up with one point of difficulty. > >>> Again, a good test suite could and should avoid one >>> customer seeing another one's data, just like Blinksale does it, but >>> prospects might not see it that way so easily. >> >> Are you saying you don't have a good test suite, then? > > As insulting as I find your question, I think we're pretty well > covered, thank you. Why do you find that insulting? You seemed to be implying that you had to take certain measures because you didn't have a good test suite. I simply asked if that's what you meant. Apparently it wasn't. > > > Best regards > > Peter De Berdt Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org Sent from my iPhone -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
