Lerone,
My opinion is that your database on an NT platform will not scale as well as
you may hope. You are talking about adding 100-150% more data and tripling
your users to 300. I would strongly recommend going to a Unix platform for
your database. Also, if the database is going to grow that much...it is
likely a write intensive application that would perform better on something
other than RAID5...maybe RAID0+1.
Certainly there are servers that can handle this load...on NT, but if you
are going to that large a server...why not go Unix and increase your
performance (I know, an NT box costs less...but if cost isn't an issue!?!).
That's just my opinion...and I actually started my IT career as an NT Admin!
Ed Haskins
Oracle DBA
Verizon Wireless
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in gaining knowledge about oracle I've been introduced to some concepts,
components, and concerns and I'd like to get some general feedback. so, in
general how big of a deal is server design? what would you use as criteria
for decision making, like the need for multiple controllers and drive/file
system configurations.
my background is with ms-sql/nt and we're looking at migrating/upgrading to
oracle/nt. we've had success with raid 5 via a single controller with
multiple channels. I've been to the oracle dba pt 1a and have been exposed
to oracle architecture; we never had such concerns so I have no basis of
comparison. our instructor and classmates, while knowledgeable, were more
developers than system engineers; whereas we'll be more system
engineers/administrators than developers. what kinds of metrics/performance
should I be looking at, considering, and shooting for from the start?
right now we have about 100 users and a 20G DB which *will* increase to
probably 300 users and 40G to 50G DB; on average we're looking at about
thirty thousand transactions over an 11 hour period; again that'll probably
increase to 70,000 to 80,000 transactions over an 11 hour period.
reads/writes/queries/indexes, their size and speed, and other such
processing metrics, were never a concern.
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Lerone Streeter
System Analyst
Abbott LBG
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