Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It’s lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
—Jeff Bezos
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
—Tim Berners-Lee
Both the logical data and physical data models are static, only representing the definition of the data they contain. Many database designers stop here, never—or only inconsistently—taking into account how the data and the database will be used. See Table 11-1.
Table 11-1. Step 2: Utilization
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Sources | Procedures | Deliverables |
•1.1: Physical ... |