Re: Oracle DB needs much CPU time?

Fu-Chiang (Rich) Tsui wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am new to the oracle database. I have some naive questions here.
>
> Before we purchase and install the Oracle Database, we would like
> to know whether it requires much CPU time or not.
>
> Currently we are using the Sun Sparc 10 machine with SunOS 4.1 and
> this machine also maintains about 200 mail accounts and one Web
> server. Thus, if we install the Oracle database on our machine, will
> this machine crash after starting oracle processes? This machine has
> 64MB RAM.
>
> In addition, do we need a database manager to maintain the oracle
> database? Is it easy to handle the database system by some
> programmer (with Mini-SQL experience) without much knowledge on oracle
> database.
>
> Any one could give me some comments? Thank you.
>
> Rich Tsui
> Center for Biomedical Informatics
> University of Pittsburgh
I would recommend you consider Oracle's Workgroup Server instead of the Enterprise Server. The Workgroup Server is preconfigured and typically runs on a platform with less resources.

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Rich Woods
Technical Field Support Specialist, Oracle Corporation, USA
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