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Frank van Bortel wrote:
> littlechicken wrote:
>
>>Hi all, >> >>I am not very knowledgable in this area so would appreciate any advice >>you guys can give. >>
/sec/hr/day
> - 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)
>
In other words: buy lots of disks.... Disks are cheap. Hire DBA, we are not cheap but [most of us] know what we are doing :) Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 14:45:10 CST