Re: What's the largest Oracle DB a PC can host?????/

Richard Hollingsworth wrote:

> I've been asked to evaluate and make recommendations for our next DB and
> it's a big one. We don't know the eventual size, but it COULD top 20 TB
> easily.
>
> Management wants to save $$$ and use PC servers. I'm no PC expert, but I
> really don't think even the largest, fastest PC server on the market would
> be able to handle that effectively.

Well, probably depends very much what is running on it. That is, a 20 TB DB with a half time user making a query on a table with 5 records each day should be no problem :-)

What load do you expect?

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