Re: Oracle Server System Specs

Hahahaha. My brevity indicates that I do not have the answers to your questions, if I had I would have provided that information in the first place. My question should be taken at face value. I wasn't looking for an exact answer, simply wondering what experiences others had with Oracle. Nor was I looking for advice on what my company should to in order to manage this "properly". I work for an institution of "higher education" and we do not have the funds to hire someone to pursue this full time. So, to reiterate my original question, and provide clarification: What do you run Oracle on?

-Michael

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3E48363A.A182ACB1_at_exesolutions.com>...
> Michael Wisenbaker wrote:
>
> > I will shortly have the "pleasure" of installing and maintaining an
> > Oracle server(linux based). We currently do not have any hardware on
> > which to install Oracle. My question is what are the minumum specs I
> > should be looking at? I've read the documentation on the Oracle
> > website, but the only info in regards to system specs is the amount of
> > RAM. So, what do you run Oracle on, how well does it run, and if you
> > had your druthers what would you run it on?
> >
> > Apreciated,
> >
> > Michael
>
> Could you have provided less useful information?
>
> What version and edition of Oracle?
> What are you going to do with it? 1 user or 100,000?
> What are you going to do with it? Some reports using crystal reports or
> run a 7x24x365 web site?
> What are you going to do with it? 1MB of data or 1TB?
> What are you going to do with it? SQL*Plus queries or thousands of Oracle
> Financials?
> What are you going to use it for? Developement, Testing, Production,
> Training?
>
> And why oh why oh why would they ask you to it when it seems you have no
> background in Oracle? Acting as a Linux SA and Oracle DBA is not trivial.
> You have an opportunity here to make a huge mess. I strongly advise you to
> have your management spend the required dollars to get someone to back you
> up that knows enough to not be dangerous.
>
> Daniel Morgan
Received on Tue Feb 11 2003 - 09:28:55 CST