Re: Oracle capacity

Aaron Rivers wrote:
>
> I am working on designing an insurance software solution with a radical
> database design in the background. Can anyone tell me if Oracle could
> handle a book of business of theoretically 1 million policies. Could it
> handle storing 1 million policies? From a workload perspective, there may
> be transaction on about 15% of those policies a day ( entries, updates,
> etc.). Is this something that an Oracle database could support?
> What is the cost estimate for obtaining a "vanilla" Oracle database to use
> for an insurance solution?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you.
>
> Aaron
>
> adrivers_at_worldnet.att.net

1 million policies will not pose a problem in the slightest (assuming good design, application code etc etc)..The size in itself will not cause dramas - people have done much (much) larger things...

You can download Oracle for free for evaluation purposes from technet.oracle.com - after that its time to talk turkey with the Oracle license people...

HTH

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