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Re: Compressing Oracle SW directories and files

From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:25:06 +0100
Message-Id: <1168241107.6703.2.camel@dbalert099.dbalert.nl>


Niall,

He's asking about _software_ dirs and files. Not about datafiles. It is windows, where by default datafiles might end up in the software dir anyway. I agree with you even then: it's a server! How much space is there to be gained compressing executables and config files? One must be short of disk (and thus short of money desperately) to go this far.

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 06:44 +0000, Niall Litchfield wrote:

> You can do it at least to regular Oracle datafiles (laptop short of
> space discovery to thank for that, right along with you can hibernate
> an oracle database server just fine...) using NTFS compression (choose
> compress on the datafile directories in explorer). There will be a
> performance impact on the server and database (server CPU will be
> higher, disk io will be slower for the db) and it is almost certainly
> not supported by Oracle.
>
> I'd be pushing back against this one though. Being asked to manage
> logs and archives is perfectly reasonable in my book. Being asked to
> compress production databases is unreasonable.
>
>
> On 1/8/07, J. Dex <cemail_219_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> On one of our Microsoft Servers, I have been asked to compress
> all of the
> Oracle software directories and files. Will that cause any
> issues? What
> is the best way to compress them?
>
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