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Lerone,
My opinion is that your database on an NT platform will not scale as well as you may hope. You are talking about adding 100-150% more data and tripling your users to 300. I would strongly recommend going to a Unix platform for your database. Also, if the database is going to grow that much...it is likely a write intensive application that would perform better on something other than RAID5...maybe RAID0+1.
Certainly there are servers that can handle this load...on NT, but if you are going to that large a server...why not go Unix and increase your performance (I know, an NT box costs less...but if cost isn't an issue!?!).
That's just my opinion...and I actually started my IT career as an NT Admin!
Ed Haskins
Oracle DBA
Verizon Wireless
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
in gaining knowledge about oracle I've been introduced to some concepts, components, and concerns and I'd like to get some general feedback. so, in general how big of a deal is server design? what would you use as criteria for decision making, like the need for multiple controllers and drive/file system configurations.
my background is with ms-sql/nt and we're looking at migrating/upgrading to oracle/nt. we've had success with raid 5 via a single controller with multiple channels. I've been to the oracle dba pt 1a and have been exposed to oracle architecture; we never had such concerns so I have no basis of comparison. our instructor and classmates, while knowledgeable, were more developers than system engineers; whereas we'll be more system engineers/administrators than developers. what kinds of metrics/performance should I be looking at, considering, and shooting for from the start?
right now we have about 100 users and a 20G DB which *will* increase to probably 300 users and 40G to 50G DB; on average we're looking at about thirty thousand transactions over an 11 hour period; again that'll probably increase to 70,000 to 80,000 transactions over an 11 hour period. reads/writes/queries/indexes, their size and speed, and other such processing metrics, were never a concern.
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