Re: NT & 100 gig Oracle
Date: 1996/08/29
Message-ID: <3225C2BA.11EA_at_sn.no>#1/1
The system you are describing is very large. NT is quite new and the performance
has not been NT's best side. If you are going to downscale from a mainframe DB2
database, I would buy a UNIX-system like SUN-Ultrasparc, Digital Alpha or HP.
(You could look at others too).
On these computers you could put in lots of memory and lots of CPU's.
Oracle have developed a server which uses 64bit adressing on the Alpha. This
means you could put in up too 14 Gigs of memory if you want. You can also put
in many CPUs (Oracle can use many cpu's).
If you should consider NT on the database server I would use a much smaller system to see how it perform.
I think Digital Alpha can use 14 CPUs (?) and SUN Ultrasparc 30 CPUs. Your database server can be moved to NT at a later stage without changing your software.
---Hans Rasmussen---
WGP0048 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Bill Perkins and I am a DBA with the Kansas Department of
> Revenue and have eight years of mainframe experience. We are currently
> redesigning or tax system from a mainframe application to a client server
> application along with AMS consultants. Currently have about 1.5 million
> individual taxpayers and 250 thousand businesses that are registered for
> an average of 3 different taxes. Current datastore size is about 60 gig
> using data compression. We administer about 450 users who have the
> ability to use four multiple CICS screens with their signons.
>
> We are currently planning for a three tier system. DB2 for our main
> datastore on a mainframe, Oracle Server for NT as our server that will
> pull data from DB2 for our users to work with, Filenet for our imaging of
> documents, and Windows95 or WindowsNT for our client machines with
> Powerbuilder interfaces. Now for the reason of this note.
>
> We have seriously been considering going to a two tier application using
> Oracle Server for NT as our main datastore instead of DB2 on a mainframe.
> I have not been able to locate current users of Oracle running under NT
> with our size of datastore and users.
>
> If there are Oracle users currently running under NT, I would like to get
> in touch with them to see how they are configured and what we should look
> for if we go to Oracle for our main datastore. I can be reached at
> 913-296-0048 or emailed at wgp0048_at_aol.com.
>
> Thank you for your time to read this note.
Received on Thu Aug 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST