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About Siebel Database Growth Estimates

Upgrades from: Siebel 6.x, 7.0.x, & 7.5.x.

Environments: Development, production test, production.

Databases: All databases.

Database upgrade is resource intensive. If the upgrade exceeds available resources, the upgrade halts. You must then resolve resource issues before resuming the upgrade.

For estimates of growth percentages for specific RDBMS platforms and releases, see the following tables:

Actual expected growth may vary widely from these estimates, depending on which Siebel application you are using (Siebel Business Application or Siebel Industry Application), database configuration, row size of tables, and data content.

Table 31. IBM DB2 Database Growth Estimates
If Upgrading from Release...
4-KB Tablespace
16-KB Tablespace
32-KB Tablespace

7.5x Unicode

15%-30%

230%-250%

130%-150%

7.5x

70%-80%

575%-600%

1100%-1200%

7.0x

35%-90%

25%-100%

30%-40%

6.3x

200%

400%

No change

6.2x

200%

400%

No change

6.0x

200%

400%

N/A

Table 32. Oracle Database Growth Estimates
If Upgrading from Release...
Tables
Indexes

7.5x Unicode

35%-50%

45%-60%

7.5x

40%-55%

10%-25%

7.0x

35%-80%

25%-55%

6.3x

40%-70%

70%-90%

6.2x

40%-70%

70%-90%

6.0x

40%-70%

70%-90%
Table 33. MS SQL Server Growth Estimates
If Upgrading from Release...
Tables
Indexes

7.5x Unicode

65%-80%

30%-45%

7.5x

40%-60%

60%-90%

7.0x

40%-90%

40%-100%

6.3x

N/A

N/A

6.2x

160%-175%

115%-130%

6.0x

160%-175%

115%-130%

    
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