Comments on: You need to read this post about Table Limits

By: Webtrends Table Limits — Simply Explained | Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson

Tue, 17 May 2011 16:09:09 +0000

[...] a bit written on the subject online…if you know where to look. The best post I found was You need to read this post about Table Limits by Rocky of the Webtrends Outsiders. The last sentence (well, sentence fragment, really) in the [...]

By: rocky

rocky — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:33:04 +0000

Started, but not finished. I’ll queue this one up for a review.

By: Steve Biggs

Steve Biggs — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:15:11 +0000

Hi Rocky!

Great 1st article but I can’t seem to find parts 2,3, and 4?

Did they ever get published?

Thanks,

By: rocky

rocky — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:39:45 +0000

Good point. There is about 50 times more info coming out of WebTrends about the dangers of high limits than there is about the dangers of low limits. We’ll definitely incorporate the high limit info they provide.

Sean – At the WebTrends Engage conference last week, we learned that table limits are a much bigger deal than we’d thought. Apparently WebTrends gets bad feedback on it from big important customers as well as us tiny (still important) customers. And, in software 8.7, WebTrends has addressed it. First, the code in 8.7 allows much bigger table limits without as much impact on performance. Second, they have added table limits as an Alert topic — you can set up warnings to yourself about nearing table fill-ups.

We’re still going to finish the series since so many of us aren’t planning on going to 8.7 any time soon.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:56:15 +0000

Great post. You mentioned that this is likely 1 of 3 or 4 posts on this topic. I’d like to suggest that you incorporate the performance impacts of increasing table sizes. Webtrends technical support has warned me about this in the past, but then is vague about the specific impacts.