And if you are moving from 8.06. I think I'd recommend not moving
*directly* to anything newer either.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message
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> mostadam_at_yahoo.com (Frank) wrote in message
news:<8bca69a5.0206191146.7216a00c_at_posting.google.com>...
> > We have
> >
> > Oracle 8.0.5 on Win NT 4.0
> >
> > We move to
> >
> > Oracle 8.1.6 on Win 2k advance server
> >
> > Questions for Gurus:
> >
> > Any danger that performance decrease??? I heared some folks some
> > stored procs after these kind of upgrade getting very slow.
>
> We're moving a lot of servers/applications from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7. Some
> issues we've encountered, but not a serious performance decrease.
>
> > What is the Hardware config you best recommended. Mostly about Hard
> > Drive, RAID and Tape Backup and Network card
> >
> > For CPU we will use Dual Dell PowerEdge and We will have 2 GIG RAM but
> > Hard Drive we dont know. DB size is aroung 40 GIG but will expand to
> > 100 GIG in 3 years.
>
> You would get much better response if you supplied an exact PowerEdge
> number. Without knowing disk subsystem configuration is very hard to
> decide how many and how big disk you should use.
> Because this is a low-end server I think that using RAID5 for all
> Oracle database files can be a sensible solution. However, I know
> nothing about your conditions - performance requirements, type of
> system (DSS, OLTP), traffic etc.
> As tape backup maybe the best for you is local DLT drive. NIC you will
> get with server (10/100) and I do not think that giga ethernet is for
> low end DB server a must.
> If you want more information from me and others here, you definitely
> need to supply more information to us.
>
> P.S. Daniel was right, do not migrate to anything older than 8.1.7.
>
> --
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Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 06:09:55 CDT
