Re: Performance: Math Models??

John Mullee wrote:

> Has anyone developed math models of oracle's performance?
> There seem to be an *awful*lot* of heuristics, from
> the perspective of newbie DBA...
>
> I'm thinking of throwing an ER graph, with
> expected queries in relational-algebraic form,
> into a black-box that knows my hardware
> architecture and spews out optimal
> table/key/index structures and storage
> parameters. Or maybe even gives max
> TPMs for a range of hardware configurations.
>
> Or am I dreaming? Is such a thing more
> commonly referred to as a 'consultant'...?!
>
> john :)

Or Database Sizer - search the oracle site on sizer: it should come up with
Compaq, Dell and HP. The Compaq seems outdated, tho. --
Frank van Bortel

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