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Re: Oracle Database Sizing

From: noone <noone_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:45:10 GMT
Message-ID: <q9pLf.34278$Jd.10655@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>


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.
>>

>
>
> 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

        /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

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