Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Andreas Koch Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: What's the largest Oracle DB a PC can host?????/ Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 22:02:27 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1023393901 01 12565 hFn1bFEbSLACRT 020606 20:05:01 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 06188900206-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: de-DE Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:82590 X-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 13:04:25 MST (news.easynews.com) Richard Hollingsworth wrote: > I've been asked to evaluate and make recommendations for our next DB and > it's a big one. We don't know the eventual size, but it COULD top 20 TB > easily. > > Management wants to save $$$ and use PC servers. I'm no PC expert, but I > really don't think even the largest, fastest PC server on the market would > be able to handle that effectively. Well, probably depends very much what is running on it. That is, a 20 TB DB with a half time user making a query on a table with 5 records each day should be no problem :-) What load do you expect? -- Andreas if ((sex==fem)&&(hobby==comp)&&(age~25)&&(status==single) &&(cntry=GER)) goto http://www.kochandreas.com/home/single.htm