Archive for May, 2008

The cost of Data Auditing

Clearly any auditing that has to be performed will have a CPU impact, because each audited action will require some code to be run. It is important not to forget that auditing also requires disk space, because the audit output has to be stored somewhere. Given the size of the data warehouse, the audit logs […]

Impact of Security on Application Development

Because of the volumes of data being handled in the data warehouse, data movement is an expensive process, in terms both of resource and of time. Any increase in the resource or time needed to move data decreases the query capacity of the data warehouse. There are a number of different ways in which bulk […]