RE: two databases in a server

We run about 30 instances on one HP 9000 and 20 more on another HP 9000, with one being production and the other test/dev. We have no issue with downtime, and most of our databases have been up for around 1 year.

I've heard arguments from many well known people, including the link sent before, but what you save on the DBA side, you spend on the SA side. You're going to have an increase in work somewhere.

--Tom

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) wrote:

> Alex,
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> This is funny. What you call extreme I call normal. I have an IBM AIX
> p570 as a development machine with 15 Oracle databases on it. And a
> P690 with twice that. Right now they all share the same Oracle home
> (although we are finally applying the January security patches using a
> new Oracle home).
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> Very stable. Reboot time is what I would call normal (less than 1
> minute). The databases are always available - never down.
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> So I guess I disagree with your assessment. The big machines (in my
> view) are the better machines for me.
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> Tom

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