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That scale of investment is not uncommon. So an issuer may invest $20 million-$50 million in the data warehouse, but a system of that scale often cannot come near the level of performance the company requires.For example, if the system is not tested, how are you going to know it cannot load all the data it needs to over night, because the volume of data exceeds the number of hours in a night?Maybe queries take longer then they did when the system was searching cheap tiffany money clips a volume of data, which was a fraction of the size of the new data warehouse.

Lack Of Time An Impediment To Testing"The hardest thing about doing large-scale, proof-of-concept is just getting it done," Winter says. "Sometimes it's hard to assemble a complete group of people with the software skills and experience with VLDBs."

Another common problem is by the time the project gets funded, it's already behind schedule. Testing at a facility designed to work with VLDBs can take anywhere from four weeks to three months, and with the pressure to bring the technology up as soon as possible, it is hard to make the choice to delay it further."If you don't test the system, you're taking an open-ended risk that will come back to haunt you later," Winter says. "Failure is not unlikely and more costly. It's not a good idea to roll the dice."

Here are the guidelines: If you are implementing a 250-gigabyte data warehouse, you should be able to find people with enough implementation experience that full-scale testing is not as crucial.However, if you are going to work with five, or even one cheap tiffany necklaces of data for some applications without proof-of-concept testing, you are at risk, Winter says.Many vendors of large-scale data warehouse systems do proof-of- concept at the customer's location or at a center designed for VLDB testing. IBM (IBM), for example, has developed four such venues, called Teraplex Integration Centers, that concentrate only on large- scale data warehouse testing.

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