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Lothar,
If you are going to be using RAID-5, I cannot see how chopping up your database will help a lot. Unless you have multiple ranks of RAID-5 storage, all your data is stored in one big blob over which you have little physical control, if any.
I usually separate my table-tablespaces and index-tablespaces into different tablespaces and subtending datafiles, more of a matter of management than of performance, since I am not a big fan of self-extending Oracle storage.
RAID-5 automatically scatters your data when it is stored; it is part of its reliability functions and also what can help your performance in queries.
If I were you, I would separate the database logically, and not arbitrarily separate the storage on physical boundaries, given they are meaningless in the RAID-5 environment unless you have multiple controllers and RAID ranks.
That's just my opinion.
RSH.
"Lothar Armbruester" <lothar.armbruester_at_t-online.de> wrote in message
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> Hello out there,
> we will upgrade our database from Oracle 8.1.7 to 9i soon and I thought
> it is a good idea to do some restructuring along.
> Some time ago, I read that tablespaces with many datafile smaller than
> 2GB would perform better than ones with one datafile of, say, 14GB.
> The system will be W2k and the database will be stored on a single
> RAID5. I know that tabelspaces with datafiles spread over many disks
> will perform better but how about having all the small datafiles on one
> volume?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Lothar
>
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Received on Mon Jun 03 2002 - 22:24:46 CDT