Re: People Soft and Informix 7.2

Posted in 1998

Greg Moye — Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:41:14 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

KENDRICKS CHERYL wrote: > > Informix DSA 7.2 > Platform: Sun SPARC SunOS 5.5.1 4 CPUs > > Has anyone found it advantages to turn PDQ on with PeopleSoft version 7.01? > > TIA > > Cheryl L. Kendricks > Sr. Database Analyst > H.E. Butts Grocery > San Antonio, Texas Unless Peoplesoft fragments its very large tables (> a few GB min), probably not. If it's anything like SAP (and it probably is from a DBMS usage style standpoint - mostly OLTP oriented...), its doubtful. You really don't have enough CPU's to profitably use PDQ without freezing everything else on the machine. It's really aimed at heavyweight DSS systems with LOTS of CPU's and scads of memory. Greg