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Daniel,
I agree with your methodology if your users can answer your questions. But sometimes, all the users can do is declare a record count for the database table. Or a ratio of "5 of these records for every one of those records". Then we are left with coming up with a methodology that makes management happy. I agree that the formulas that Oracle provides are a "WAG" (Wild Assed Guess) at best. But at least I can say "I am following the formulas provided by Oracle". It provides a comfort level for managers so that they feel confident that they will not be needing to purchase more disk in the near future.
And I *always* add 10% to the estimates I come up with to give *me* a comfort level!
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Fink [mailto:Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:00 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Lost appendix: Space Estimations for Schema Objects
<jumping into the reorg debate quagmire>
Leslie,
I have one question, Why is such a level of detail needed?
In the past, for each schema or database, we defined 4 sizes of objects (along the lines of autoallocate boundaries).
Small - 128k (or the value of db_block_size * db_file_multiblock_read_count). This is also our baseline multiple. Medium - 1m Large - 64m Extra-Large - 256m
We then reviewed the tables/indexes and "estimated" their size and put them in the appropriate tablespace (lmt uniform size). Me - So, how big do you *think* this table will be? Them - Well... Me - More than 256 megs? Them - Oh, not that large. Me - Less than 50 megs? Them - Hmm..that sounds about right. Me - Okay, that's a Large. Them - But, that means we are not using 14 megs. Me - That's okay. This gives us pre-allocated space if our estimate is wrong. And 14 megs is not a big deal. After all, how much memory do you have in your PDA? Kinds of puts it in perspective.
I've used this approach very successfully in the past 5 years and find that my space wastage is less than 10% (even less on larger databases).
The first time I used this approach, it took a lot of work with the development staff to set aside the fine-grained sizing process they were used to. Using this approach, we created 2 data warehouses of about 750g each (back in 8.0.4 time). The only space-related issue in the 9 months I was there was a load process that tried..and tried...and tried to process a bad input file and filled up the normally small error_log table. The next release tracked the number of errors on a particular file and stopped trying to load it after a threshold had been met. Almost all of the other databases that were supported by members in my group had an average of 1 space related failure per week. Of course, I also worked myself out of the contract...(Mogens, are you listening?)
Regards,
Daniel Fink
Leslie Tierstein wrote:
> Applying the formulas as documented in Oracle 8, and comparing the
> results to an actual Oracle 8i database (a data warehouse; I'm
> interested only in 8 fact tables ranging in size from 10 million to
> 500 million rows; the 9i database is for a new client, and is the
> reason for this exercise) yields the following:
>
> - Table estimates for non-partitioned tables are within 10% (uniformly
> lower for the estimate than the actual) of the actual
> - But the table estimates don't take into account partitioned tables,
> which are farther off
> - B-Tree index estimates were modified to reflect the changed size of
> the ROWID; most are still within 10% deviation from the actual
> - We're still looking at the bitmap indexes (determining cardinality)
> and the local partitioned indexes
>
> More problematic is actually determining how many rows are going to be
> in each fact table -- both at startup and at 6 month intervals.
>
> Unfortunately, we're not going to 10g any time soon, so I can't use
> the EM facility Lex mentioned.
>
> Leslie
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