Re: Size and performace of Oracle 8

Tim Read wrote:
>
> We are thinking of using Oracle 8 (enterprise version) for Linux to manage
> data from our research group. I would therefore like to know:
>
> 1. How big is the Oracle instalation on a UNIX platform (approx.)?

8.0.5 on our Solaris box occupies approx. 375MB -- that seems to be a pretty standard amount of space. Note that 8.1.5 (8i) will occupy much more -- approx. 575 on our installation, again on Soalris (FWIW, the 8i doc. stated it would occupy about 800MB!)

> 2. We have about 500 Megs of data to store in the database. Will it respond
> ok with this amount of data inside?

500MB is a very small database by Oracle standards -- assuming it is configured even approximately correctly you should be OK --

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