Re: Can Oracle On AIX support Terabyte plus Database ?
From: Jeff Richmond <jrichmond_at_i-way.co.uk>
Date: 1996/09/30
Message-ID: <52oc9j$m5u_at_lira.i-way.co.uk>#1/1
>
> Oracle Parallel Server on the IBM SP has several large sites which are
> in the 500GB to 1TB range now. At the CPP conference in Chicago a couple
> of weeks ago, the customers who presented included USWest, John Alden
> Insurance, La Caixa (Spanish Bank), Federal Express and Shopko.
>
> There are many other large database references for Oracle such as
> Fingerhut, but these are more distributed architecutres, not parallel
> ones necessarily.
>
Date: 1996/09/30
Message-ID: <52oc9j$m5u_at_lira.i-way.co.uk>#1/1
In article <324B2601.1206_at_ix.netcom.com> Walter Muntzenberger <wmuntz_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Ofer Gal wrote:
>> >> In the Company I work For people rely on DB2 for the huge volumes >> can I get responses from other who have been there ? >> Some numbers >> The platforms >> The companies that use Oracle for real big databases and so on ? >> Please any response is important.
>
> Oracle Parallel Server on the IBM SP has several large sites which are
> in the 500GB to 1TB range now. At the CPP conference in Chicago a couple
> of weeks ago, the customers who presented included USWest, John Alden
> Insurance, La Caixa (Spanish Bank), Federal Express and Shopko.
>
> There are many other large database references for Oracle such as
> Fingerhut, but these are more distributed architecutres, not parallel
> ones necessarily.
>
I am involved in an SP2 implementation in Switzerland ... we have been warned that OPS on the SP2 is less than stable. Another site in Switzerland is having huge problems with their SP2 and OPS. I remain unconvinced that this solution is viable at the moment.
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