Re: Clean Install of Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.2.1 on Windows 2000 Server

Michael John wrote:

> We are currently having problems with our Oracle Server, which had
> been updated from 8.1.7 to 9i a longer time ago. We are now reaching
> the limits of our Installation and more often have some problem with
> bad blocks, crashing Oracle listener service on Windows, response
> time, and so on. Additionaly, we are lacking a backup und recovery
> strategy and getting more and more active users on our database.
>
> Once I saw some Documentation stating, on which drives and partitions
> - Data files
> - Indexes
> - Rollback / UNDO Tbs
> - Redo Logs
> - Archive Logs
> should be put to give a good performance. I slightly remember
> solutions, like: where to put things, if you have 2 drives, if you
> have 3 drives, and so on...
>
> Anyway, this would be a input requirement for our hardware
> acquisition.
>
> Does anybody know where i can find these Docs? I searched OTN, but did
> not find exactly what I was looking for.
>
> TIA,
> mic

The doc you read wasn't worth the paper it was written on. It was bad advice when given and worse advice now.

SAME ... Stripe And Mirror Everything.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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