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Re: Oracle on PC

From: jeb <jeb_at_fayettevillenc.com>
Date: 1998/04/07
Message-ID: <352ADCBC.2973611E@fayettevillenc.com>#1/1

ONLY 3 instance crashes in a year, I'm sold...

David Sisk wrote:
>
> We have about a 15 Gb database on a quad pentium pro200 box with about
> 900
> Mb of memory (400 Mb allocated to the SGA) and 8 independent RAID5
> disk
> arrays connected to 4 2-channel SCSI RAID adapters. We get pretty
> darned
> good performance. Of course, for the $75K we spent on this box, we
> could've
> bought a Sun box half the size and twice as fast, but my employer is
> hell-bent on migrating to nothing but NT, so there ya go. It has
> actually
> been very stable. We've had maybe 3 instance crashes in the last
> year. It
> is primary used for data mart type applications. This is just my
> opinion,
> but if I were you, I'd be pretty happy to go with either Sun or HP.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dave
>
> Howard Joffe wrote in message <6g1b7a$ar0$1_at_rcp6.elan.af.mil>...
> >Is there anyone who is running Oracle on a PC server handling very
 large
> >databases (> 1GB)? If so are you satisfied with the performance? At
 the
> >moment the consensus is to use a SUN server. I am not convinced we
> need
> all
> >that firepower.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Howard Joffe
> >joffeh%b1_at_mhs.elan.af.mil
> >
> >
 

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Received on Tue Apr 07 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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