Re: Datafile sizes

I personally use bigfiles in ASM. I dont even consider the time to
restore a hugefile, because I do not forsee the need to restore only a
chunk of a tablespace. If I am restoring the entire tablespace, it
doesn't matter how many files I have.

If I have corrupted blocks, I would use RMAN's blockrecover command.

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On 5/2/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Wow... that makes for a long dba_data_files query!! My personal thought on
this is for BIG databases, I like to time how long it takes to restore a
given datafile size. If I need to recover a given datafile, how long do I
want that to take? My general rule is no more than 10-15 minutes (depending
on any SLA's of course!). So if it takes 15 minutes to restore 20GB, that
would be my datafile size (assuming the OS can handle a datafile of that
size and so on).

I much prefer fewer, larger datafiles to more, smaller ones. Much easier to
manage among other things.

RF


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Subject: Datafile sizes


Looking for comments & experiences regarding sizes of datafiles.

We have a large (6+ TB) OLTP database, which currently has 2300+ datafiles.
A while ago, we stopped adding datafiles and were exclusively extending
them.
But we are wondering how far we can/should go, with the size of individual
data files.
Currently about 30% of the datafiles are at 8 gig.

BTW - this particular application resides on VMS.


Any ideas/thoughts/comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.


Dan Hubler
Database Administrator
Aurora Healthcare
daniel.hubler@xxxxxxxxxx



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