The statistics database today exceeded four million (billion that is for you Americans) records. This is only the statistics DB, without the forum and support databases.

All databases combined have a total of almost ten million records.

Thought I share this with you all

what kinda size are they in storage terms? just out of interest

The statistics DB is 2.6GB and growing with about 75~100MB a day.

All support DB's are about 2.5GB together.

So which is it? A million is the same the world over. It's only when you get to 1000 million that an ambiguity can arise over the use of the term 'billion'.

It's still a huge database though!

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So which is it? A million is the same the world over. It's only when you get to 1000 million that an ambiguity can arise over the use of the term 'billion'.

It's still a huge database though!

Well, I'm a far away from the US here. Thought they use billion for million.

It's confusion anyway, gallons, miles, pounds.....

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Ouch! but I'm only tracking the members of my own team. More of an experiment in how to make it work really...


A million is always 10^6. In much of Europe, a billion was traditionally 10^12 (a million million), while in the US a billion is 10^9 (a thousand million). The European version always made more sense to me anyway, although in the UK at least, billion is now commonly used to mean 10^9.