Re: How big are Oracle databases?

Jim Smith wrote:

> Much is made of Oracle's ability to cope with very large databases and
> there are obviously increasing numbers of 100s GB and TB databases out
> there. But how big is the typical Oracle database now.?
>
> My experience is mainly in (wholesale) financial services where
> databases tend not to be very large ( 100s-1000s of customers,
> 10Ks-100Ks of trades). Elsewhere single function databases (personnel,
> procurement etc.) for even fairly large companies obviously needn't be
> very large.

Most of what I see these days is in the range you describe ... hundreds of TB to ten or so TB. Anything smaller ... is small. I think anyone in the field should be looking toward the skills necessary to manage at least 1TB with connections coming from an app server.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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