Re: Oracle Myths

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> 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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I think you have just performed the equivalent of what other posters do when they say "I was trying something and I got some error what should I do?" ;-)

Daniel Morgan Received on Mon May 20 2002 - 16:47:35 CDT