Re: Multiple (SYSADM) Schemas in a Peoplesoft Database
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:51:38 +1000
Message-ID: <4A15080A.9010307_at_iinet.net.au>
David Kurtz wrote,on my timestamp of 21/05/2009 2:14 AM:
> It is supported, but it is not recommended by PeopleSoft/Oracle.
My take on that is very few people have even bothered trying it and neither Oracle nor Peoplesoft ever encouraged it.
Which flies in the face of the "run lots of apps on a single instance with RAC", "server consolidation" and all the other yadda-yadda of Oracle marketing...
> There are a number of drawbacks including and not limited to:
> * You have to back and restore the databases together. The only to backup
> and restore one of several PeopleSoft databases in the same Oracle database
> would be via export/import.
You have to back all instances anyway, so having to back up one large instance or two smaller ones makes no difference whatsoever.
> * If the database goes down, then all the PeopleSoft systems become
> unavailable.
True. But is that still the case if it is on RAC?
> * If all the databases are in the same database server then the same
> database parameters apply to all. You cannot control them separately.
True. But with login triggers, it is simplicity itself to set different parameters for each session connecting as each schema owner/psdbowner. I do this regularly to run multiple applications in the same instance, each on its schema. Why should it be different for Peoplesoft?
> In the end there is very little saving to be made, and it is at the price of
> considerable complication and loss of flexibility.
> I simply would not do it.
Disagree. UNDO and temp disk space are not trivial or
"little" savings. Further, RAC is a common push from Oracle:
to have multiple RAC instances on multiple RAC clusters
is simply prohibitive from the licensing and hardware
resources point of view.
And no: disk is most definitely NOT cheap.
Unfortunately, no one is taking the right message to the PPS/Oracle responsible people. Maybe a few public outings will change that?
-- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision_at_iinet.net.au -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu May 21 2009 - 02:51:38 CDT