Re: Oracle Myths

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:14:09 +0200
Message-ID: <48mieu479vbmduspm859plf2j7s5drbr4g@4ax.com>

On Mon, 20 May 2002 19:52:40 GMT, Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:

>Down below in another thread TurkBear wrote: "IMHO, the size does not matter"
>with reference to disk size.
>
>And this reminded me of another common bit of "wisdom?" with respect to Oracle I
>thought I would throw into the mythology pot.
>
>For many years I was told that Oracle likes lots of small disks. That the ideal
>Oracle system was 100 2GB drives rather than 10 20GB drives. I haven't heard
>this repeated in awhile. It was only about 5 years ago I remember a SysAdmin
>whining that he could no longer get 4GB drives and would have to move Oracle to
>9GB or 18GB drives.
>
>Any commments? Myth or wisdom?
>
>Daniel Morgan

'It depends'

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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