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Re: Oracle Database Sizing

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:40:55 +0100
Message-ID: <dtl5t1$let$1@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


littlechicken wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am not very knowledgable in this area so would appreciate any advice
> you guys can give.
>

about 2 wide, 6 deep and 3.5~4 high.

Then add the overhead, allow for slack, errors, unforeseen. I'd quadruple that.

Any guess is a valid as your calculation: you don't know:

- how many records
- how many tables
- how many NULL columns
- how many columns
- how many indexes
- how much overhead

Do you have *any* idea what version of Oracle you are about to use? Then find the installation manual of that version, for your platform of choice, and read how much space an Oracle installation will require. Typically it's about 5GB, 70% software, 30% initial database.

Databases are know to grow, and become as large as Peta bytes. (1,000,000GB, or 10^15)

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 14:40:55 CST

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