It is well known that TradeMe is the largest website in New Zealand. TradeMe continues to experience amazing growth, for example, in the last year or two TradeMe has gone from accounting for 50% of New Zealands entire internet traffic to 67%!![trade_me-standard[1] trade_me-standard[1]](http://burling.co.nz/image.axd?picture=trade_me-standard%5B1%5D_thumb.gif)
Because of the traffic TradeMe hosts, the volume of data and transactions at TradeMe are fairly significant by New Zealand standards, so I thought I’d sit down with Matt van Deventer who is in charge of the database infrastructure at TradeMe and see how they use SQL Server and how SQL Server supports their business. Enjoy.