RE: On the question of "What is a Large Database Anyway ?"

From: Post, Ethan <epost_at_kcc.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:59:43 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00318EDE.20010601160628@fatcity.com>

I just got back from a little seminar from Quest with Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha and if he was dead (he's not that I'm aware of) he would be rolling in his grave about your comments on hit rates and SGA sizes. His new book 101 Oracle Performance Tuning will stress that you abandon those hit rates and focus on V$SYSTEM_EVENT, V$SESSION_EVENT and V$SESSION_WAIT in combination with CPU and IO stats. He states that Oracle is rather well designed for physical IO. His presentation was great and I'm definatley going to buy his book because I can learn something from this guy. So maybe those small SGA's aren't so bad after all :)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072131454/o/qid=991436418/sr=2-1/ref =aps_sr_b_1_1/002-4814740-2092864

Ethan Post

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As most everyone has said so far .... Its all subjective. What is large to me .... is a dinky little thing to someone else.

Right now at my current job we have around 37 instances on 4 mchines with 2 GB or less of memory and 2 - 4 processors each. These DBs range from a 10 MB to a 70 MB SGA (yes, sounded real small to me when I got here also). These databases are all in the realm of 60 - 100 GB of data each.

My last job we had 2 machines running 4 instances. These DBs had SGAs from 350 MB to 980 MB in size with 4 CPUs using 4 GB of memory. As far as size goes, we had upwards of a Terrabyte of data.

To me, I have found that I have to treat both setups the same. They really do have the same problems (space, hit rates, drive failures, hardware failures, etc.) You just have to pay closer attention to certain aspects of them differently. With the small SGAs we have to look real close at hit rates and all the Memory Dependent aspects of the DB. With the large amount of data on the other DB we had to look more closely at Data and file related problems.

All I am trying to say is ......... its all subjective.

Kevin

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