Re: Compressing Oracle SW directories and files

You can do it at least to regular Oracle datafiles (laptop short of space discovery to thank for that, right along with you can hibernate an oracle database server just fine...) using NTFS compression (choose compress on the datafile directories in explorer). There will be a performance impact on the server and database (server CPU will be higher, disk io will be slower for the db) and it is almost certainly not supported by Oracle.

I'd be pushing back against this one though. Being asked to manage logs and archives is perfectly reasonable in my book. Being asked to compress production databases is unreasonable.

On 1/8/07, J. Dex <cemail_219_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> On one of our Microsoft Servers, I have been asked to compress all of the
> Oracle software directories and files. Will that cause any issues?
> What
> is the best way to compress them?
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