[aspen] Aspen MIS chosen as MIS for all of British Columbia, Canada

[GREED]

Huge achievement announced by BC ministry, Aspen chosen as MIS for circa 600,000 student 1800 school province. One database!!

 

Press announcement to follow.

[FishCustard]

Huge achievement announced by BC ministry, Aspen chosen as MIS for circa 600,000 student 1800 school province.

 

 

This: good!

 

 

One database!!

 

This: bad! (I think... maybe I'm too used to SIMS, but something about this gives me that 'do not want' feeling. I'm guessing there will be SQL server clustering going on, etc?)

[GREED]

In terms of the physical database yes there will be for performance and redundancy.

 

From a user perspective it is one database carefully controlled so each school only sees information pertinent to them. This is how Aspen works in a multi tenancy scenario, or groups of schools and trust groups, districts or provinces and beyond.

[GREED]

What scares you so?

[FishCustard]

To be honest, now I re-read it all, I'm not sure. There's no reason why it should pose problems if done right (which I have absolutely no doubt it will be) - I suppose I've just seen so many drunken-monkey DB desings that my brain conflated 'one massive database' with 'one massive table' or other WTFs on instinct.

[CAM]

Congratulations guys, that's one big contract. Imagine more then one data manager will be involved in keeping that running.

[jinnantonnixx]

Wow! Nice one. Edited July 26, 2013 by jinnantonnixx

[X-13]

If you need techs in Canada, I'd move there.