People,

I went here:
http://www.oracle.com/education/cert...ctives/40.html

I see this topic:
Describe installation performance enhancements

I'm drumming my fingers on this one.

The only 'performance enhancement' I can think of is that
they have the 1 cdrom install.

I assume that it's quicker than the multi cdrom install I go through
with 9i.

Also I notice that the pre-configured database installs
(General Purpose, DW, Transaction Processing) are pretty
quick. I assume this is so because they have some data files
which they just pull out of a hat rather than running
long sql scripts like catalog.sql

I'm not sure this is an enhancement though.
Does the 9i install make use of the ready-to-go data files?

And back to the original question...
For 10g, What are the installation performance enhancements?

-Mr. SG

Mr Sunny Guy wrote:

> People,
>
> I went here:
> http://www.oracle.com/education/cert...ctives/40.html
>
> I see this topic:
> Describe installation performance enhancements
>
> I'm drumming my fingers on this one.
>
> The only 'performance enhancement' I can think of is that
> they have the 1 cdrom install.
>
> I assume that it's quicker than the multi cdrom install I go through
> with 9i.
>
> Also I notice that the pre-configured database installs
> (General Purpose, DW, Transaction Processing) are pretty
> quick. I assume this is so because they have some data files
> which they just pull out of a hat rather than running
> long sql scripts like catalog.sql
>
> I'm not sure this is an enhancement though.
> Does the 9i install make use of the ready-to-go data files?
>
> And back to the original question...
> For 10g, What are the installation performance enhancements?
>
> -Mr. SG

There aren't any of which I am aware. The single CD installation
is meaningless.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

1 cdrom installation 'meaningless'?

No. It is a useful feature; it makes the install
go quicker and less inclined to bump into problems.

This is assuming of course the DBA does not want to install
software on the other cdroms.

I thought of some other features which might be considered
performance enhancements (or considered DBA productivity
enhancements):

-Cloning support baked into DBCA
-Cloning support baked into EM
-Automated checking of the installation environment
(proper OS?, patches?, kernel params?, swap?, RAM?, etc...)

Would a typical DBA find the first two to be significant?

I assume the last one is a boost to Oracle;
a newbie DBA might be less inclined to toss
her Oracle CD in the trash if the installer gives
her comprehensive installation help.


-msg