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Oracle Distributed Systems
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Oracle Distributed Systems

by Charles Dye
April 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
552 pages
15h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Multiple Schema Versus Multiple Databases

Most designers and database administrators associate one schema with one application. (By schema, I mean an Oracle database account that owns the database objects that an application uses.) Whenever a new schema is introduced, the designers and DBAs must choose between giving the schema its own database or placing it with other schema in an existing database. A number of factors affect this decision

The Single Database with Multiple Schema

Quite often,it makes sense to let schema and applications share a database instance. The two primary advantages of this approach are lower administrative overhead and lower hardware costs. Every Oracle database instance carries a certain amount of overhead: disk space must be allocated to system, temporary, and rollback tablespaces; and memory must be allocated to the SGA (System Global Area). In addition, a DBA must manage users, SQL*Net configuration, database links, and so on. If you can minimize this overhead, by all means do so.

If the schemas share data, then you may realize additional benefits. For example, an inventory application that shares a VENDORS table with an accounts payable application can access the table without depending on the availability of two databases. The administrative work is simplified because no database links are required, and application code is simplified because no error trapping need exist to handle the unavailability of the VENDORS table.

Even if applications do not share ...

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