Re: Oracle block size - OS block size

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:45:50 +1000
Message-ID: <3b2fba38@news.iprimus.com.au>

"Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote in message news:3b2f4c49.651016_at_news-server...
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:00:28 +0100, "Jonathan Lewis"
> <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >I once worked on something that was claimed
> >to be the biggest Oracle database in the world -
> >it was nearly 10GB. (it was actually in the top few)
> >
>
> I wonder what a really large ORACLE database is nowadays? Largest
> I've worked with was well over 1.5Tb (V8.0), but I've heard of much
> larger ones.

Two students recently from Queensland with a 13Tb database... does that count?

Regards
HJR
>
> They keep growing at an alarming rate. In the days of VMS, large was
> a few Gbs. With V7 in Unix, the largest I saw was around 600Gb.
>
> It all is relative, I know. Sometimes a small database can be as
> challenging as a large one, it all depends on the "iron" being used.
> But some are true "monsters".
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
Received on Tue Jun 19 2001 - 15:45:50 CDT