Re: Oracle 10g on Windows

"Randy Harris" <randy_at_SpamFree.com> wrote:

>I'll be migrating some 8i and 9i databases down the road, so I've just begun
>to learn 10g. I installed the server on a windows box and created a new
>database with dbca. The dbca requires, and this is supported in the
>documentation, that the instance be allocated a minimum of 40% of physical
>RAM. It seems that this would make it ineffective to create more than one or
>two databases on a system.
>
>Am I misinterpreting something here, or does this mean that 10g represents
>something of a paradigm shift for Oracle? Is the message that a server
>should only support one database? Or, are they telling me that Windows is a
>poorly suited platform for Oracle?
>

IMHO,the need for multiple instances of Oracle on a single server has rarely been demonstrated and usually multiple schemas in the same instance can handle any business needs..

This is the case regardless of platform. Received on Mon Nov 14 2005 - 11:04:40 CST