Re: How much RAM?

> Nora
>
> Not answering your question (I can't it depends on the app and the data) but
> is there a business reason you are adding instances and not schemas? More
> than one instance is an overhead that needs justification.
> Yes, we definitely have our reasons to keep the databases on separate
> instances.

as the man said, much of it depends on the application and data. is it OLTP? or DSS? ad hoc queries or perpackaged? COTS or homegrown?

all of those make a difference in how much RAM is going to be used.

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