Re: oracle vldb on windows nt

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 14:14:21 +0800
Message-ID: <37901F3D.DE2@yahoo.com>

attwoody wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I would be interested in hearing about experiences running Oracle
> VLDB's (500GB - 1TB) on Windows NT - what kind of servers, reliability,
> ease of scalability, etc, etc. The application would be PeopleSoft 7.5,
> Financials and HR/Payroll.
>
> I, personally, would feel much safer running something like this on
> either a HP N-Class, Sun UltraEnterprise 5500 or IBM RS/6000 S80 (when
> it comes out in the fall), but "dead presidents" (ie: cost of unix
> servers vs intel) are talking very loud and clear to the management of
> my company.
>
> Fortunately, the "dead presidents" aren't drowning out other
> considerations such as reliablilty and scalability; I'm being asked
> about NT more from the perspective of its being another option.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
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I think NT has a ceiling of 2G RAM addressable for each process which could cause problems for a database of that size...

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Connor McDonald
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"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Sat Jul 17 1999 - 01:14:21 CDT