RE: Data Pump and compress on the fly in Unix
- From: fairlie rego <fairlie_r@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Leng.Kaing@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:53:26 -0800 (PST)
Yeah and I also know of Oracle bugs which have been closed on the premise that
disk space is cheap (where the workaround has meant additional disk space)
Regards
Fairlie
Leng Kaing <Leng.Kaing@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } My biggest
disappointment with data pump at the moment is this fact - I can't continue to
compress on the fly like I did with exports. I have an issue at the moment
where floating data types are not support with export and have been told to use
data pump.
For all the goodies that data pump is supposed to provide, you would think
that it compresses more than the metadata. What about the rest of the data? I
know disks are supposed to be cheap now but we all know how hard it is to get
the company to pay for it. I would gladly convert to data pump if I can
compress on the fly too.
Imagine presenting this to management: I need more disk to use data pump
because it does not allow compress on the fly. And the reason I need to use
data pump is because exp doesn't support a data type that is currently used by
Oracle BAM.
Management will say: they are both Oracle's product - BAM either has to
change data type, or data pump has to compress and use the same space as before.
I?ve logged an SR with Oracle and the analyst tells me that the unix
?compress? command is not recommended in the first place. I should not be
compressing export dumps either from exp or data pump. What the heck is going
on here? I?ve never heard of this one before. I?ve been using it for years
without problems. There are even metalink notes to guide us through that. I?ve
said the very same thing to him and he?s now working on his response.
ARGH!!
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Leng Kaing
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2007 3:17 PM
To: pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Leng Kaing; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Data Pump and compress on the fly in Unix
On 01/10/2007 10:35:22 PM, Mark Brinsmead wrote:
> Here's a silly suggestion...
>
> Have you tried a compressed filesystem?
To my knowledge, that option is only available on an operating system
whose name should not be spoken aloud among the civilized oraclites. Can
that be done on a system which cannot run SQL Server database?
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Mladen Gogala
http://www.mladen-gogala.com
Fairlie Rego
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