Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s52.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Patrick SenderaKurt Kuddy Subject: Re: Which oracle server ? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.database.oracle,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.oracle.server References: <41b72ea1$1_2@alt.athenanews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.163.78.63 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s52 1102885060 67.163.78.63 (Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:57:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:57:40 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:57:49 GMT Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.database.oracle:15203 comp.databases.oracle:29141 comp.databases.oracle.server:231414 On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:40:14 -0500, Murtix Van Basten wrote: > Hi all, > > I will deploy a database project to an Oracle server, but I could not > figure out which version of Oracle should I get. Here is my configuration: > Hardware: > Dell 1750 Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz, 2GB Ram, 3x36GB Hdd on Raid 5 > Operating System: Redhat Linux 9 > > I will deploy only 1 database for the application. Only 1 DBA will use the > Oracle server when necessary. When the database once deployed, Only 1 > application will reach it to read and write data. There will not be any > other database in the server. The server will be used for only this purpose, > nothing else. > > From Oracle's website, I see there are Enterprise, Standard and Standard One > level of purchasing options. In this case, which should I go with ? > > Thank you for answers. > > Murtix Van Basten. You don't want to use raid 5. raid 0+1 is recommended. Suggestion: look into using ASM (Automatic Storage Management) and 10g. Simply put, ASM is basically a database file system. Oracle will manage the mirroring of the database files for you transparently. You'll want to do some reading and research on this, obviously.