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Re: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

From: Ruth Gramolini <rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:04:46 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0051D132.20021218090446@fatcity.com>


Thanks, Dave! I just started looking into using DBMS_SPACE. Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:14 AM

Ruth, have you seen this doc on metastink? It might be helpful.

Note:116923.1

Dave

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Jared,
Can you send me the script you use. I can't even figure out the syntax for DBMS_SPACE from the docs. I would be very grateful Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:58 PM

I use DBMS_SPACE to calculate the actual size of all data objects in our SAP databases. The data is collected once a week.

Once a month I use the collected data to create an aggregate table via Oracle's linear regression and partitioning SQL operators.

Run the projections for the current month, end of year, the 2 following 6 month periods, put the data in excel and chart it.

Earlier this year my projection for SAP running out of space was 6/28/02.

There were some delays in getting the new storage hardware installed.

Guess which day we ran out of space? ;)

That was just dumb luck that it happened the same day, but now people believe my projections. :)

I opted for the use of DBMS_SPACE, as that is the best way to find out how much space is actually being used for data. I didn't care about allocated empty blocks, or how big the tablespaces were.

There's now about 14 months of data for this, and though growth is not alwasy linear, it's still better than a SWAG.

Jared

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Hello All,

It should include all as you said , but since I do not belong to a capacity
planning group in my shop , I mostly concentrate on the DB growth . I have taken Sales as business object to correlate with the DB size . I think in our case both of them are directly proportional. ( Business objects may vary
from shop to shop )

first step I have done is calculating the : Growth factor = avg. History Db
growth / avg Hist Sales growth

Second Step : identifying the Sales projection for the next fiscal year ( Ie. I have to get sales growth percentage from the business team , for example 15% and multiply with sales history, for each week I guess.)

3rd step: Now I have sales projection and growth Factor , and can the projected DB growth .

Well The above is the thing I am working on by having some queries to get the data from the DB. Also I have to automate the whole process .

I would like to know how this Capacity planning followed in your shop. What's your answer when your group manager asks how much disk we need for holiday prep ?? Like this we can have many questions. I know somebody is having a better approach getting followed . Would appreciate if you share with us.

or somebody can better help me in """identifying """ the Q? from managers !!!!

Thank YOU all for your replies
Madhu

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Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Check the link Kirti has posted (orapub).

Is capacity planning only on the database size ? In my mind it also includes :

   Transaction description (online and batch)    Transaction frequency (online and batch)    Transaction window
   Networking requirements
   Number of users (all and concurrent)
   Overall disk space (inside and outside the database)

   Availability

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Stéphane Paquette
DBA Oracle et DB2, consultant entrepôt de données Oracle and DB2 DBA, datawarehouse consultant stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com

Lèche-vitrine ou lèche-écran ?
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