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Re: How to store 50 Terabytes per day?

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:53:55 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <20040910025355.62213.qmail@web86906.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


There's also the physics of the disk to consider... Hundreds upon hundreds of disks, even when enclosed within SAN's adds up a lot of space/power/cooling/etc in your computer facility!

> Even with the insertion of the data once, we're already past the throughput
> capacity of most storage arrays, never mind additional like undo and redo,
> so direct-path and nologging would be key. And you really can't have
> direct-path without using EXCHANGE PARTITION. Set the tablespaces to READ
> ONLY as soon as possible after load and get 'em backed up.
>



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