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Chapter 1 Introduction

4ThesystemrunningtheexternaldatabaseperiodicallycheckstheFTPserverfordatafilesbasedonthe

synchronizationscheduledefinedontheexternaldatabasesystem.

5Whenadatafileisfound,thefollowingprocesstakesplaceontheexternaldatabasesystem:

aThelatestZipfileisdownloaded.

bTheZipfileis

extractedtothedecompressed.csvdatafiles.

cThedatabaseloadingisperformedusingthedatabasespecificloader.

Performance and Scalability

Thefollowingstepsindicatetheamountoftimerequiredtocompleteeachprocess:

 Extractionandflatfilecreation—ThissteputilizestheADMresourcestothemaximum.Therefore,itis

scheduledtoextractthedataatnightorsomeotherperiodoflowresourceconsumptionandtoallow

enoughtimetocomplete.

 Transferringthedatafiles—ThisstepinvolvesuploadingoftheflatfilesfromtheADMRepository

appliancetotheexternaldatabasehost.ThisstepdoesnotconsumemanyADMresources.However,the

transfertimemightvarygreatlybecauseofnetworkconditionsattheexternaldatabasehostsite.

 Loadingthedatabase—Thisstepmighttakefewhourstocomplete.

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