We are running DPM 2007 SP1 on Server 08 with Hyper-V for a few of our clients. On all but one of the servers the DPM database (DPMDB) hovers around 400MB, but on one server it's ballooned up to 22GB ...

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The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

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Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan late in August. But just how does such a situation arise?