{"id":876,"date":"2009-05-02T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Weekly-survey-whats-your-largest-database-and-how-many-do-you-manage.aspx"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:58:00","slug":"weekly-survey-whats-your-largest-database-and-how-many-do-you-manage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/weekly-survey-whats-your-largest-database-and-how-many-do-you-manage\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly survey: what&#8217;s your largest database, and how many do you manage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/statisticsio.com\/\">Jason Massie<\/a> posted an interesting statistic yesterday &#8211; Facebook has 1.5 petabytes of image storage, and it grows by 25TB daily &#8211; I wonder how they store and manage it?<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">In this week&#39;s survey, I&#39;m interested in two things: what&#39;s the largest single SQL Server database in your company and how many SQL Server databases are you responsible for managing? I&#39;ll report on the results sometimes over the weekend of 5\/9\/09. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">A note on the second survey: if you manage a team of DBAs, but don&#39;t manage databases directly yourself, answer for your individual DBAs, rather than the team as a whole.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><br \/>\n<script>\nem24_survey_x = \"606daa77-e8ef-4a76-a59c-3e8c300acb47\";\nem24_survey_width = \"255\";\nem24_survey_height = \"290\";\nem24_styles = \".em24_s {border:solid 1px #626A84; width:250px;} .em24_s td {font-size:12px;} .em24_q {background:#798BC6; color:#ffffff;} .em24_ai0, .em24_at0 {background:#E7F3FF; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_ai1, .em24_at1 {background:#E3F7DE; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_v {background:#798BC6}\";<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/my.surveypopups.com\/show\/si.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<script>\nem24_survey_x = \"952ded0a-5c10-4819-9577-84e0ee6e2dfa\";\nem24_survey_width = \"255\";\nem24_survey_height = \"290\";\nem24_styles = \".em24_s {border:solid 1px #626A84; width:250px;} .em24_s td {font-size:12px;} .em24_q {background:#798BC6; color:#ffffff;} .em24_ai0, .em24_at0 {background:#E7F3FF; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_ai1, .em24_at1 {background:#E3F7DE; border-top:1px solid #B3C7D9;} .em24_v {background:#798BC6}\";<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/my.surveypopups.com\/show\/si.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Thanks! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">PS No comments on this post please (I&#39;ll delete them straight away) &#8211; please wait for the survey results post to avoid skewing the answers. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Massie posted an interesting statistic yesterday &#8211; Facebook has 1.5 petabytes of image storage, and it grows by 25TB daily &#8211; I wonder how they store and manage it? 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