Posted by DA Morgan on 12/02/06 22:32

justin.merth@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there any "rule of thumb" for determining how many files a database
> should be split into based on the size of the database or the number of
> CPUs?
>
> Thanks in advance for all of your advice

No.

The point is to maximize the number of spindles. How you do that depends
on your hardware.

The only sure thing about a "rule of thumb" is that it is more often
wrong that right.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

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