Re: Oracle DBD and 9i on Redhat

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

> setting up Oracle 9i and the Perl DBD module for oracle.
> setup oracle 9i on a Fedora/Redhat box as well as set up the DBD module.

For the DBD part, all you need is the SQL*Net client libs installed.

For the Oracle 9i part, a lot depends on your disk configuration.

Oracle likes to have dedicated disk devices if possible. What's your disk
footprint look like? NAS? SAN? Dedicated RAID array? Transaction and rollback
log volumes? Are you able to allocate across multiple spindles? multi-channel
SCSI controllers?

Are you running any fancy stuff like the engines for native XML, natural query,
full text indexing, Java-DB-appserver, distributed transactions, data
warehousing, etc.?

Are you running heavy transaction apps like Oracle Financials?

You may want to find someone with the Oracle setup experience that best fits
your server and application environment. Then separately get someone with Perl
module-building expertise to come in and build your DBD client modules. That
part is definitely the easier of the two.

Sizing and tuning your Oracle is the part where experience and skill can make
big performance differences in the same configurations/environments.

The fact that it's on RH/Fedora shouldn't make a whole lot of difference to the
actual oracle installation, since Oracle will readily consume whatever resources
you feed it.

Mike/


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