Very large tables in SQL Server

Question

We have a very large table (> 77M records and growing) runing on SQL Server 2005 64bit Standard edition and we are seeing some performance issues. There are up to a hundred

Answer 1

In and of itself, 77M records is not a lot for SQL Server. How are you loading the 100,000 records? is that a batch load each day? or thru some sort of OLTP application? and is that the performance issue you are having, i.e adding the data? or is it the querying that giving you the most problems?

If you are adding 100K records at a time, and the records being added are forcing the cluster-index to re-org your table, that will kill your performance quickly. More details on the table structure, indexes and type of data inserted will help.

Also, the amount of ram and the speed of your disks will make a big difference, what are you running on?