Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamadagni, Rajendra
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:50 AM
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Subject: RE: Oracle Compress OptionWaleed, I get your point ...We have 6 RAC instances that run active-active ... and compared to availability requirements, we (incl management) decided that disk is cheap.I guess it is relative ...Raj--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:35 AM
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Subject: RE: Oracle Compress OptionDisk is not cheap if you pay for high availability configuration. I compress historical data on daily basis and was able to save 70 percent of the disk space. Imagine the amount of savings for five TB.Two major issues:1) Oracle says updates will be slow on compressed tables, but I say don't even try to update a compressed table, uncompress first otherwise you will end up with a segment that is not good at all for scattered reads.2) You can not add columns to the table when it's compressed, so if you compressed a big table and need a new column you need to recreate the table without compression. So adding many extra columns before compression is a good idea.It's mainly good for data warehouses applications.Regards,Waleed-----Original Message-----
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:05 AM
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Subject: RE: Oracle Compress OptionI think 9202 doesn't like to export compressed tables in direct mode ... so watch out for that ... I implemented, tested and next day reverted back to regular tables due to this export issue. Disk is cheap.
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Raj
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From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:05 PM
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Subject: Re: Oracle Compress Option
"Compress to impress?" by Julian Dyke is a good presentation on this
topic (see for instance http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/jan03/jan30ab.htm).I do have the article - 202 K with no compression, 147 K with
compression :).Let me know if you're interested, and I'll email it directly to you.
Mogens
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>Does anybody has any experience with Oracle 9I compression option. I did some test on 9202 with a table of more 14 million rows. Table has total 7 indexes. Surprising both table and indexes are using more space after compression. Before compression space used is 13064MB and after compression 13184MB. In both the cases I did export from source table and stored in two different tablespaces. Any insight on that and any disadvantages of using that.
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>Thanks