Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3D9889BB.6634_at_yahoo.com>...
> A. Fox wrote:
> >
> > I posted a question some weeks ago and got no replies :-(
> > It's hard to believe that I am the only one trying to install/tune Oracle 8i on Win2k for a large database.
> > I am running 8i on my laptop with no issues, but I need to set up a large (500Gb) DB on a large Win2k server.
> > Any relevant references would be appreciated.
> >
> > > Hi, all,
> > > I am wondering if somebody has a complete version of the following document:
> > > http://otn.oracle.com/tech/windows/rdbms/rdbmswin.htm
> > > The page on the OTN site seems to be cut off mid-sentence, right before all the tuning tips ;-)
>
> Running SAP on Win2K, user base about 2000, concurrent users about 300,
> concurrent db connections (since SAP pools them) about 100.
>
> No problems - runs an absolute treat.
>
> The real importance is the gear you buy. I have no doubt that if we
> were running Unix on the gear we've got, it would probably be faster,
> but the Win2k has been up since about July - no reboots, crashes
>
> hth
> connor
I would not recommend running a 500GB database on W2K for three reasons.
- Scalability
- Scalability
- Scalability
Received on Mon Sep 30 2002 - 17:48:04 CDT
