Wait for 8.1.6 !!
Gert
Pedro Lopez <plopez_at_uwyo.edu> wrote in message
news:38908C67.7D59C649_at_uwyo.edu...
> Sounds like you are building a large enterprise critical application.
> I think UNIX/ORACLE 8.1.5 or 8i would mork for scalability, stability,
> throughput and availabiltiy. Some advice would be:
>
> 1) this is a 24/7 mission critical application. Hire experts, you will get
> better results. This is not the type of application to hire someone of
the 'I
> read a book on Oracle so I can run the site' experience levels. Get
experienced
> and/or certified personnel. The extra salaries will more than pay for the
down
> time you experience training someone OTJ.
>
> 2) Spend lots of time in analysis of the problem. Far too often people
come in
> with neat ideas but w/o a good handle on what it is they really need. This
> causes untold grief as you constantly have to reorg/recode the site. Good
> analysis will reduce this. Sites being dynamic it can never eliminate it,
also
> this may be a new idea and so change is to be expected. But it can be
planned
> for. Your analysis will drive your architecture. Architecture will drive
your
> hardware/software configurations.
>
> 3) Reliability and disaster recovery. This should also drive the
architecture.
> If you want to be true 24/7, then that rapidly narrows your choices. If
you can
> be down half the night, other solutions might be viable. Note that
'scheduled
> down time' is still downtime, you will be closed for business and not
making
> money during that time.
>
> Anyway, hth.
>
>
> Paul Gallimore wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can somebody advise me on a project that we plan to undertake.
> >
> > My company intends to build a web site with a huge database at the back
end.
> > That is, it is our intention to create a database that is capable of
storing
> > records for a huge number of site visitors; say, 30,000,000 people - but
who
> > really knows.
> >
> > For each user/visitor we anticipate requiring no more than 10
information
> > fields. The database then needs to be interactive with the web site's
html
> > pages. Meaning that people must be able to insert information from their
> > browsers whilst others must then be able to retrieve the same info from
> > dynamically created html pages.
> >
> > As an example of the kind of thing I have in mind: Users from all over
the
> > world must be able to store information about themselves, but a surfer
from
> > Atlanta must be able to then come to our site and be able to discover
from
> > the database the average shoe-size of Londoners and the names of all
those
> > who take a size 11 shoe and live in Wembley. When he makes the enquiry
from
> > our web site concerning the shoe sizes he then gets a few pages created
for
> > him listing the individuals names and addresses. He also gets banner ads
> > dynamically built into the pages according to his own user profile. Get
it?
> >
> > I have been advised that Oracle is probably the best db software to use
> > because of the size of db required and because Oracle is robust enough
for
> > the job. My questions then, are these:
> >
> > 1. Which Oracle products would you recommend? Would it be Oracle 8i and
Web
> > DB?
> >
> > 2. Which OS platform is preferable? Is NT stable enough, will it cope?
Or,
> > must it me Unix or Linux?
> >
> > 3. For various reasons it may be that we ask a non-programmer to
accomplish
> > this task. That is, RTFM and get on with it. Is this feasible, or is it
an
> > impossible task for a mere mortal? I need to know this, since it may
well be
> > me who has to read the manuals and do the job.
> >
> > Any advice would be very much appreciated. We have a large project on
our
> > hands and we want to be certain to start at the right place. It would be
> > very helpful if replies could be e-mailed to me as well as sent to the
> > group. Thanks.
> >
> > Paul
>
Received on Sat Feb 05 2000 - 05:49:50 CST
