Re: Oracle 10g on Windows

"Randy Harris" <randy_at_SpamFree.com> wrote in message news:%c3ef.3788$p37.484_at_newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
> 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?
>

If Oracle10g has such a requirement or limitation, it would be a downgrade not an upgrade. Windows is a suitable platform for Oracle, but it will take some of the fun out of being a DBA. Running SQL Server on Windows will take all the fun away. Received on Mon Nov 14 2005 - 20:52:03 CST