Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshosting.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!newspeer.radix.net!news.er.usgs.gov!news From: Brian Peasland Subject: Re: storage X-Nntp-Posting-Host: edcxpw014.cr.usgs.gov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <40685316.292283A@remove_spam.peasland.com> Sender: news@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov (Janet Walz (GD) x6739) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston VA X-Accept-Language: en References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:47:18 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Lines: 37 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:258307 Daud wrote: > > We are going to use EMC storage to create mount points to store the > oracle data files. No problem with that ... but now I am wondering > whether to go with EMC for oracle binaries or use the local server > harddisk. What's the best for it? I hope this question is appropriate > in this newsgroup. If not I am sorry. > > Daud > > Oracle v8.1.7.4 if this matters. It's been my experience that it really doesn't matter (to the database). Just make sure you have good backups of everything. That being said, we typically keep the Oracle software on local filesystems. This is not for any performance reason. Rather, we typically have disk available on the local file system and we aren't going to use that for the Oracle database datafiles. And we like to keep our server's software packages on the local file system as a matter of convention. HTH, Brian -- =================================================================== Brian Peasland dba@remove_spam.peasland.com Remove the "remove_spam." from the email address to email me. "I can give it to you cheap, quick, and good. Now pick two out of the three"