The short answer is you have to make an estimate for the initial load and growth for every table in your application. One you have the table row counts you can estimate the table and index sizes. You will need to allow overhead for growth of each tablespace, for sort (temp tablespace), and for transaction support (rollback tablespace). The overhead also needs to consider any planned application additions. Besides space for the database itself you need space for at least one set of OS level full file backups and space to hold export files. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Senthil Kumar Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:42 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DB Sizing Hi, I'm a new DBA. I want to know how do i size my database. Any doc's are available for this. One of my customer is asking me to give a detailed report for his database sizing. Do anybody have any checklist or any formula for sizing the db. I'm using 8.1.7. TIA Ram ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------