Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:26:09 +1100 From: "Howard J. Rogers" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.database.oracle,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Which oracle server ? References: <41b72ea1$1_2@alt.athenanews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 61 Message-ID: <41bcb76c$0$1082$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.114.6 X-Trace: 1102886765 1082 203.164.114.6 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.database.oracle:15204 comp.databases.oracle:29142 comp.databases.oracle.server:231418 Patrick SenderaKurt Kuddy wrote: > 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. He might do. > raid 0+1 is recommended. By whom? Oracle?? Not true, if so. > Suggestion: look > into using ASM (Automatic Storage Management) and 10g. Simply put, ASM is > basically a database file system. Simply put, I am a Martian. One statement is as true as the other. > Oracle will manage the mirroring of the > database files for you transparently. ASM, of course, does no such thing. It mirrors data, not files. There's a difference. And only, in any case, if you ask it to. > You'll want to do some reading and > research on this, obviously. Obviously. By the way: how about answering the original question: does he get Enterprise, Standard or Standard One version of 10g?? HJR