Re: Seeking advice on system architecture

Only one piece of advice: Get in some consultancy.

I could have said: Read a few books, test every thing that you do, monitor the database, tune the thing properly, etc., etc. But if it's your ass that's on the line for this when something goes wrong, I suggest you pass the buck - at least at first! :-)

Get someone in for a few days to help you set it up and get you started. Then get yourself off on some training courses. Er, then pratice on a test instance and read all those books.

When you ask questions like "I welcome any advice or information on how to organize backups, recovery, and the system architecture" you show that you are out of your depth (really, no offence) at this stage - so do the right thing and get some help.

Just my advice (from 10 years of Oracle with many - happy - clients) which you are free to ignore...

Steve Phelan.

Steve Pax wrote in message ...
>I have inheretited a project that requires 24 hr 7 day a week
>availability. Probably that can be weakened slightly.
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>The project is committed to using Oracle 8 on NT server,
>on two Compaq Proliant 2500 servers with 8 Gig each and RAID 5.
>In actuality the DB only requires 500 Meg of table space.
>It will be coded in PowerBuilder 5.
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>I welcome any advice or information on how to organize
>backups, recovery, and the system architecture.
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>Thanks
>Steve
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>spax_at_world.std.com
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Received on Tue Mar 10 1998 - 00:00:00 CST