Originally posted by imose
what exactly do you look for when determining if a database is i/o intensive? need help getting a better understand of what i/o basically means etc thanks!
I stands for input, it is you write opertation.
O stands for out put, it stands for read operations.

IO can be disk IO or memory IO.

And database itself is not IO intensive its the application thats IO intensive. So look at your application if you see that lots of IO is taking place.

Read some Tuning Manuals.