Columnists Commentary

Database storage is still generally handled the way it has been handled for the past two decades.  DBAs request more space and storage administrators allocate more space.  There is very little collaboration and very little understanding of the relationship between storage and database performance.  A lot of the conventional wisdom about databases and storage is wrong or out of date.  DBAs have to be more proactive in looking at the storage infrastructure for the databases.  If you don’t know if your database is getting optimal performance from its storage array, James Koopmann writes, it probably doesn’t.