svekweb.co.uk

Back working in Edinburgh for an internet company for another 3 months – working on their database which is SQL 2005 and uses replication heavily – 6 web servers to contend with (at the moment).

Interesting especially having spent the last 6 months effectively working on batch to be faced with the challenge of <.2 seconds response time for all the queries - although there are quite a few batch processes to deal with as well which don't have quite as strict a response time. Just as well when some of the feeds are > 6Gb!

Although having loaded a backlog of 300 events, by the time the development was finished – most of them are in the expired category (automatically expire based on the date of the event!).

Quite suprised by the regional takeup of the feature for wedding fayre organisers to add their own details – some parts of the country seem to love it – others are just not interested at all.