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Migrating Sun-based Oracle® Databases to Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers

Dell PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 with Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server

1 Enterprise Systems Group (ESG)

Dell White Paper

2 By Dave Jaffe and Todd Muirhead

3 dave_jaffe@dell.com

4 todd_muirhead@dell.com

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Contents

Executive Summary 3
Introduction 4
Solution Overview 6
The Database Servers 8 The Hardware 8 The Software 9
The Application Servers 11 The Hardware 11 The Software 11
Migrating the Application 13
The Tests 15
Conclusions 17
Acknowledgements 18
Bibliography 19 Appendix A : Baseball Database Organization 20 Database Tables 20 Master 20 Teammaster 20 Batting 21 Pitching 21 Fielding 22 Sample Query 22

Figure 1: The Dell and Sun Solution Implementations 6

Table 1: Database Server Comparison: PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 vs. Sun Enterprise 4500 8
Table 2: RAID Organization for Three Configurations 9
Table 3: Oracle Database Layout 9
Table 4: Oracle9i Tuning Parameters 10
Table 5: Application Servers: Dell PowerEdge 1550 vs. Sun Enterprise 220R 11
Table 6: Oracle Pricing 12
Table 7: 4-CPU Test Results: PowerEdge 6450 vs. Sun E4500 w/ 4 CPUs 15
Table 8: 8-CPU Test Results: PowerEdge 8450 vs. Sun E4500 w/ 8 CPUs 16 Section 1

Executive Summary

Following studies showing the advantages of migrating Tier 1 web servers and Tier 2 application servers from Sun Microsystems, Inc. servers to Dell PowerEdge servers, this study examined the issues involved in migrating Oracle databases from the Sun/Solaris platform to the Dell/Windows platform. The study showed that Oracle database and application migration is very easily accomplished. Furthermore, Dell PowerEdge servers run Oracle9i database applications faster than the equivalent Sun server at roughly one-fourth the price.

A multi-tiered database application was built with Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) on a Sun Enterprise 220R rack-mounted server driving Oracle9i Database Server on a Sun Enterprise 4500 midrange server. The E4500 was configured with either four or eight processors. A moderately sized database of baseball statistics was built on the database server. Using the portal component within Oracle9iAS, a web portal was created that allows on-line users to submit queries to the database that list the top 10 players in any of 20 statistical categories (home runs, earned run average, etc.) for the years 1901 – 2000.

The baseball database and portal application (which are both stored in the back-end database) were then migrated to a Dell configuration using the Dell PowerEdge 1550 as the application server running Oracle9iAS and either the PowerEdge 6450 (4 CPUs) or the PowerEdge 8450 (8 CPUs) for the Oracle9i Database server. Migration was simply a matter of using the Oracle export/import commands plus a script generated by the Oracle9iAS Portal manager. The entire migration process took about 20 minutes for our midsize database.

Testing with an internal web stress tool showed that the PowerEdge servers are faster than the corresponding Sun servers, at about one fourth the price (see Table 1). With a reasonable “think time” of 10 seconds between requests, the 4-CPU PowerEdge 6450 can easily handle 450 simultaneous users while the 8-CPU PowerEdge 8450 can handle 700 users; in comparison, the Sun systems handled the same number of users with higher response times and greater CPU use.

Section 2

Introduction

Sun to Dell migration issues have been studied in a series of papers from Dell Enterprise System Group’s Solution Enablement Lab and Showcase (see complete list in Section10, Bibliography). With a target audience of customers currently running servers from Sun Microsystems, Inc. but interested in migrating to Dell PowerEdge servers, the papers showed the ease and benefits of migrating low-end web servers and mid-tier application servers from the Sun platform to the Dell PowerEdge platform. In those tests, however, the Oracle database remained on a Sun server.

The current study targets a customer who is now ready to migrate their entire Oracle application server and database stack to Dell PowerEdge servers. To demonstrate the migration we have selected a multitiered web application using Oracle9i Application Server (including the Apache web server) on one machine driving Oracle9i Database Server running on a second machine. The back-end database consists of a moderately sized database of baseball statistics. A web application was written using Oracle9iAS Portal, a component of Oracle9i Application Server, to enable users to generate Top 10 lists for any of 20 different statistics over 100 years.

The web application was first implemented on a Sun Enterprise 220R 2-CPU application server driving a Sun Enterprise E4500 database server, both running Solaris 8.0. The E4500 was configured with either four 450 MHz UltraSPARC II processors and 4 GB of memory or eight such CPUs and 8 GB of memory. On the Dell side, the PowerEdge 1550 2-CPU application server with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server was used to drive either the 4-CPU PowerEdge 6450 or the 8-CPU PowerEdge 8450, each running Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

The Oracle9i baseball database was easily migrated from the Sun E4500 to both PowerEdge servers with the Oracle export and import feature. Since Oracle9i Application Server stores its application data in the backend Oracle database it was a simple matter to migrate the portal web application from the Sun application server to the Dell application server.

Once ported, the application ran better on the Dell servers with their multi-threaded Windows 2000 implementation of Oracle9i Database than on the Sun E4500 server with its Solaris single-threaded process model, and was much easier to tune. This in spite of the fact that the Dell servers, both the 4-CPU PowerEdge 6450 and the 8-CPU PowerEdge 8450, are about one fourth the cost of the comparatively configured Sun E4500. (See Table 1.) An internal stress tool used in earlier tests was utilized in this test to generate queries against the database and record response times.

A full description of the application is given in Section 3, Solution Overview, followed by details of The Database Servers and The Application Servers in Section 4 and Section 5. Migration details are in Section 6, Migrating the Application, followed by test details in Section 7, The Tests.

Section 3

Solution Overview

To demonstrate Oracle database migration and measure relative performance, a multi-tiered database application was built on a Sun server stack and then migrated to two different Dell stacks (see Figure 1: The Dell and Sun Solution Implementations). The Sun Enterprise E4500 was run with either 4 or 8 processors to compare to the Dell PowerEdge 6450 or Dell PowerEdge 8450, respectively.

Figure 1: The Dell and Sun Solution Implementations

The application architecture is the same in all three cases. Oracle9i Application Server, including the Apache web server and Oracle9iAS Portal, runs on the Application Server layer. (In this study a single server was employed in this layer. In a future study multiple Oracle9iAS servers will be used to provide redundancy and performance scaling). An Oracle Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) application runs under the mod_plsql module of Apache, calling a stored procedure on the backend Oracle database. Oracle9iAS Portal provides a web-based platform for creating these web applications with appropriate security, authentication and caching.

A database of baseball statistics, Baseball Archive Database 4.0, was obtained from Sean Lahman at http://www.baseball1.com/statistics in Microsoft Access form, exported as comma-separated values, and then loaded into Oracle tables with the sqlldr command. The database contains batting, pitching and fielding data for 15,558 players going back to 1886 (See Database Tables in Appendix A). Using Oracle9iAS Portal, dynamic PL/SQL pages were created that enable a web user to display the Top 10 leaders in any of 20 statistical categories for any year between 1901 and 2000, and for either the American or National Leagues, or both, a total of 6,000 unique queries.

The input required by Oracle9iAS Portal for each dynamic web page is the Oracle SELECT statement to generate the corresponding Top 10 table (see Sample Query in Appendix A). Oracle9iAS Portal generates the PL/SQL wrapper code that creates the connection to the backend database, calls the query and caches the resulting page. Oracle9iAS stores all of these components in the backend database, facilitating application backup and migration. Oracle9iAS Portal provides a web-based GUI to manage the dynamic pages and other components.

Section 4

The Database Servers

The Hardware

The Sun server for both the 4-CPU and 8-CPU configurations was an Enterprise 4500 midrange server running the July 2001 version of Solaris 8.0. In both configurations the E4500 used 64-bit UltraSPARC-II 450 MHz CPUs. Both the Dell 4-CPU PowerEdge 6450 and the Dell 8-CPU PowerEdge 8450 ran Windows 2000 Advanced Server on 700 MHz Intel® Xeon™ processors based on the Intel 32 bit architecture. See Table 1: Database Server Comparison: PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 vs. Sun Enterprise 4500 for details.

| |Dell PowerEdge 6450 |Dell PowerEdge 8450 |Sun Enterprise 4500 |
|Operating System |Windows 2000 Advanced Server |Windows 2000 Advanced Server |Solaris 8.0 7/01 |
|CPU |4x 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon |8x 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon |4-CPU: 4 x 450 MHz |
| | | |8-CPU: 8 x 450 MHz UltraSPARC-II|
|CPU L2 Cache |2 MB |2 MB |8MB |
|Memory |4 GB |8 GB |4-CPU: 4 GB |
| | | |8-CPU: 8 GB |
|Internal Disk |4x 18 GB* |2x 36 GB* |2x 36 GB* |
|External Disk |PowerVault 210S - 10x 18 GB |PowerVault 210S – 10x 18 GB |StorEdge D1000 – 8 x 36 GB |
|NICs |2x 100 Mb/s (1 internal, 1 PCI |2x 100 Mb/s (1 PCI card) |1x 100 Mb/s (I/O card) |
| |card) | | |
|RAID Controller |2x PERC/2 Dual Channel |2x PERC/2 Dual Channel |A3500FC RAID Controller |
|Video |On-board |On-board |Remote console |
|Height |4 Rack Unit (4U) or 7” |7 Rack Unit (7U) or 12.25” |8 Rack Units (8U) or 14” |
|Price as configured |$32,683 |$62,437 |4-CPU: $147,085 |
| | | |8-CPU: $228,885 |
|Source |http://www.dell.com 2/15/02 |http://www.dell.com 2/15/02 |http://www.sun.com 2/15/02 |

*For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes; total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.

Table 1: Database Server Comparison: PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 vs. Sun Enterprise 4500

The Sun and the Dell database servers were configured with similar external SCSI storage. The Sun server was attached via fibre channel to a Sun StorEdge A3500FC controller that drove a single StorEdge D1000 disk pod containing 8 36GB SCSI disks. The Dell PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 were attached to Dell PowerVault 210S SCSI disk pod through Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller/2 (PERC/2) PCI cards. Each PV210S was configured with 10 18GB disks. The RAID configuration on the disks, shown in Table 2: RAID Organization for Three Configurations, was created to be as similar to each other as possible, but due to differing numbers of internal disks on each server there were slight differences in the RAID configurations.

|Logical Disk |Dell PowerEdge 6450 |Dell PowerEdge 8450 |Sun Enterprise 4500 |
| 0 | RAID 1 – Internal Disks 0,1 | RAID 1 – Internal Disks 0,1 |Internal Disk 0 |
| 1 |RAID 1 – Internal Disks 2,3 |RAID 1 – 210S Disks 0,1 |RAID 1 – D1000 Disks 0,1 |
| 2 |RAID 1 – 210S Disks 0,1 |RAID 1 – 210S Disks 2,3 |RAID 1 – D1000 Disks 2,3 |
| 3 |RAID 1/0 – 210S Disks 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 |RAID 1/0 – 210S Disks 4,5,6,7,8,9 |RAID 1/0 – D1000 Disks 4,5,6,7 |

Table 2: RAID Organization for Three Configurations

The Software

Oracle9i Database was installed using the Oracle Universal Installer on both Windows 2000 and Solaris 8. The same options were selected on both. Oracle9i installation was completed without creating an initial database. The Oracle Database Creation Assistant (DBCA) was then used to create a new database instance using similar settings on the two platforms. The control files, log files, and data files were placed on different partitions of the external storage and the shared server option was used (see Table 3: Oracle Database Layout). We also applied the appropriate patch set on each platform to take 9i to the 9.0.1.1.2 level.

|Logical |Oracle |Windows |Solaris |
|Disk |Use | | |
| | |Partition |Size (GB) |Partition |Size (GB) |
|0 |Oracle Binaries |C: |16.83 |/u01 |6.33 |
|1 |Control files, |D: |16.87 |/u02 |33.36 |
| |Logs, Misc. | | | | |
|2 |Undo tablespace |E: |16.87 |/u03 |33.36 |
|3 |Users tablespace, |F: |67.49 (6450) |/u04 |66.71 |
| |Indexes | |50.60 (8450) | | |

Table 3: Oracle Database Layout

The database initialization parameters are listed in Table 4: Oracle9i Tuning Parameters. For the most part the Sun E4500 and the PowerEdge 8450 were set up the same way to facilitate 8-CPU comparison. The large pool and shared pool were set at 400MB to provide sufficient space for the largest number of simultaneous users. Processes were limited to 200 and sessions to 300 to optimize performance for the web application on both platforms. On the Dell 8-CPU system the minimum number of shared servers was set to 40 (with more created by Oracle dynamically up to a maximum of 160) but on the Sun it was found that 80 shared servers were needed to be on hand at all times, perhaps due to the larger CPU requirement to create and destroy new shared server processes under Solaris vs. new shared server threads under Windows. The number of DB writer processes was set equal to the number of processors. The parameters on the PowerEdge 6450 are scaled down to reflect the lower concurrent usage.

|Parameter |Dell PowerEdge |Dell PowerEdge |Sun Enterprise 4500|
| |6450 |8450 | |
|DB_BLOCK_SIZE |8192 |8192 |8192 |
|DB_CACHE_SIZE |117440512 |117440512 |117440512 |
|DB_WRITER_PROCESSES |4 |8 |8 |
|DISPATCHERS |16 |16 |16 |
|LARGE_POOL_SIZE |200000000 |400000000 |400000000 |
|MAX_DISPATCHERS |40 |40 |40 |
|MAX_SHARED_SERVERS |80 |160 |160 |
|OPEN_CURSORS |400 |400 |400 |
|PROCESSES |200 |200 |200 |
|SESSIONS |220 |300 |300 |
|SHARED_POOL_SIZE |200000000 |400000000 |400000000 |
|SHARED_SERVER_SESSIONS |210 |285 |285 |
|SHARED_SERVERS |32 |40 |80 |
|SORT_AREA_SIZE |64000000 |64000000 |64000000 |

Table 4: Oracle9i Tuning Parameters

Section 5

The Application Servers

The Hardware

The Dell PowerEdge 1550 and Sun Enterprise 220R servers used for the application tier are similar in terms of processing power and memory capacity. The Sun E220R is 7 inches in height (4 rack units) while the Dell PowerEdge1550 is only 1.75 inches (1U) in height. This size difference allows for many more 1550s to be installed into a single rack than 220Rs by a significant margin. This advantage is not noted in the pricing or performance data, but is an important factor in space conscious data centers and computer labs. For configuration details see Table 5: Application Servers: Dell PowerEdge 1550 vs. Sun Enterprise 220R.

| |Dell PowerEdge 1550 |Sun Enterprise 220R |
|Operating System |Windows 2000 Server |Solaris 8.0 7/01 |
|CPU |2x 1 GHz Pentium 3 |2x 450 MHz UltraSPARC-II |
|CPU L2 Cache |256 KB |4MB |
|Memory |2 GB |2 GB |
|Disk |3x 9 GB* |2x 36 GB* |
|NICs |2x 100 Mbs (internal) |2x 100 Mbs (1 internal, 1 PCI card) |
|RAID Controller |PERC 2/DCL |None |
|Video |On-board |PCI card |
|Height |1 Rack Unit (1U) or 1.75” |4 Rack Units (4U) or 7” |
|Price as configured |$6,865 |$22,140 |
|Source |http://www.dell.com 2/20/02 |http://www.sun.com 2/20/02 |

*For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes; total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.

Table 5: Application Servers: Dell PowerEdge 1550 vs. Sun Enterprise 220R

The Software

Windows 2000 Server and Solaris 8 were the operating systems used on the respective Dell and Sun servers. Oracle9i Application Server was installed using the same settings on the Dell and Sun servers. Oracle9iAS is based on the Apache HTTP server and uses the Oracle backend database as a store for the pages and logic of its applications. In addition, Oracle9iAS includes components to enable security, web caching, database caching and single sign on. The use of Oracle9iAS Portal to create the database queries used in this study is described in Section 3, Solution Overview.

Oracle9i Database was actually released several months after Oracle9iAS. As a result of this, there were some patches that had to be applied in order to get Oracle9iAS to use Oracle9i as its database (referred to as the origin database). The patches are available from Oracle’s Metalink support site (http://metalink.oracle.com). Sun Solaris required one patch and Windows 2000 needed two patches.

Oracle pricing is per CPU and is the same on all platforms. Some sample list pricing from Oracle’s web site is provided in Table 6: Oracle Pricing.

| |2 CPUs |4 CPUs |8 CPUs |
|Oracle9i Application Server Enterprise |$38,000 | | |
|Edition | | | |
|Oracle9i Database Server Enterprise | |$136,000 |$256,000 |
|Edition | | | |
|Source |http://oraclestore.oracle.com 2/15/02 |

Table 6: Oracle Pricing

Section 6

Migrating the Application

Migrating the baseball statistics database and application from the Sun to the Dell solution was a simple two-step process. The first step was to migrate the baseball database tables. The second step was migrating the Portal-based Top 10 application. Oracle on different platforms is remarkably similar in the tools that are available and the procedures used to perform different operations. This provided for an easy migration path from Sun to Dell for both components of the migration.

The baseball data was moved via the Oracle export and import commands. On the source database (the Sun system in this case), a database dump file is created through the following command:

% exp baseball/password parfile=exp.params

where user baseball is the owner of the baseball database and the export parameter file exp.params contains

TABLES=(MASTER, TEAMMASTER, BATTING, PITCHING, FIELDING) FILE=baseball.dmp

The baseball.dmp file was copied to the two Dell Windows 2000 Advanced Server systems and then the import command was run:

C:\oracle> imp baseball/password parfile=imp.params

where the import parameter file imp.params contains:

FILE=baseball.dmp IGNORE=Y FULL=Y

The import/export process can also be done through Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle’s graphical management tool.

This completed the first step in the migration, moving the actual baseball statistics data to the Dell servers. The next step was to move the dynamic pages that provide the logic for running the database queries against that data.

Oracle9iAS Portal actually stores all of the dynamic pages in the origin (backend) database and provides an export tool from its web interface to export this information into an export script file.

This export script file was created on the source (Sun E220R) application server and then copied to the two Dell PowerEdge 1550 application servers. The appimp command was run from the command line to import the Portal application into the database and register it with the instance of 9iAS on the Dell server. With the ORACLE_HOME environment variable set (C:\oracle\isuites in our case), in the C:\Oracle\iSuites\portal30\admin\plsql\wwu directory the appimp command was run as follows:

appimp -s portal30 -p password -m CREATE –f c:\temp\baseballappscript.sql -c ora8450a.ascisp.com

where the input parameters have the following meaning: -s database schema -p password -m mode (either CREATE or CHECK are valid) -f export script file -c connect string to origin database

The entire migration from Sun to Dell took about 20 minutes.

Section 7

The Tests An internal Dell simulation tool described in paper #1 of this series (see Section10, Bibliography) drove the web queries. Each simulated user issues one of the 6,000 possible queries and then spends an average of 10 seconds examining the results of that query before issuing another. The response time was measured from when the simulator submits the URL to the application/web server until the last byte of the returned HTML page is received. Server CPU utilization percent was measured on the Dell and Sun platforms by the Windows 2000 Performance Monitor and the Solaris vmstat command, respectively. The TCP/IP connection between the simulated browser and the application/web server was not kept alive between queries.

Four- and eight-CPU test results are shown in Table 7 and Table 8, respectively.

In the 4-CPU comparison, the Dell PowerEdge 6450 easily handled 450 users, delivering 2693 queries per minute with about a .1 second response time while utilizing only 65% of the server’s CPU power. The Sun E4500 with 4 CPUs, on the other hand, had more difficulty with that workload, using 90% of its CPU power and delivering 2,444 queries per minute with a much slower .9 second response time.

|Number of Users |Dell PowerEdge 6450 w/ 4 CPUs |Sun E4500 w/ 4 CPUs |
| |Queries per minute|Response Time |Server CPU% |Queries per minute|Response Time |Server CPU% |
| | |(sec) | | |(sec) | |
|200 |1199 |0.083 |26 |1155 |0.149 |43 |
|300 |1799 |0.093 |40 |1773 |0.188 |68 |
|400 |2388 |0.141 |56 |2288 |0.522 |84 |
|450 |2693 |0.116 |65 |2444 |0.9 |90 |

Table 7: 4-CPU Test Results: PowerEdge 6450 vs. Sun E4500 w/ 4 CPUs

The 8-CPU comparison between the Dell PowerEdge 8450 and the Sun E4500 with 8 CPUs tells a similar story. At 700 users, the Dell system handled 3,890 queries per minute with response time of less than .9 seconds and 57% CPU utilization vs. the Sun system’s 3,775 queries per minute at nearly 1.2 seconds response time and 74% CPU utilization.

|Number of Users |Dell PowerEdge 8450 w/ 8 CPUs |Sun E4500 w/ 8 CPUs |
| |Queries per minute|Response Time |Server CPU% |Queries per minute|Response Time |Server CPU% |
| | |(sec) | | |(sec) | |
|400 |2399 |0.107 |28 |2383 |0.151 |46 |
|500 |2980 |0.124 |40 |2927 |0.256 |55 |
|600 |3583 |0.162 |50 |3410 |0.982 |61 |
|700 |3890 |0.854 |57 |3775 |1.18 |74 |

Table 8: 8-CPU Test Results: PowerEdge 8450 vs. Sun E4500 w/ 8 CPUs

Section 8

Conclusions

Applications using the combination of Oracle9i Application Server and Oracle9i Database are easily migrated from Sun Solaris configurations to Dell PowerEdge servers. By storing all the components of Oracle9iAS Portal-based web applications in the backend database and providing powerful export/import tools, Oracle9i facilitates migration of the database tables as well as the application.

Once migrated, Oracle9i applications run faster on Dell configurations than on much more expensive similarly configured Sun systems. Using a realistic web-based query engine against a database of baseball statistics, we showed that a 4-CPU PowerEdge 6450 priced at $32,683 handles 450 users more easily than a Sun Enterprise 4500 with the same number of processors, which costs $147,085 or over four times as much. Similarly, we showed that an 8-CPU PowerEdge 8450 costing $62,437 outperforms the $228,885 Sun E4500 with 8 CPUs.

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Section 9

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Zafar Mahmood and Sudhir Shetty for valuable insights into Oracle’s inner workings, Sean Lahman for use of his baseball data, and Bill Blackley of SIS Technologies for his repeated visits to our lab to fix the Sun Enterprise 4500.

Section10

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Appendices

: Baseball Database Organization

Database Tables

1 Master

15538 Rows

|Name |Datatype |Size |Scale |Nulls? |
|LAHMANID |VARCHAR2 |10 |0 |No |
|LASTNAME |VARCHAR2 |25 |0 |Yes |
|FIRSTNAME |VARCHAR2 |25 |0 |Yes |
|BATS |VARCHAR2 |1 |0 |Yes |
|THROWS |VARCHAR2 |1 |0 |Yes |
|BIRTHMONTH |NUMBER |2 |0 |Yes |
|BIRTHDAY |NUMBER |2 |0 |Yes |
|BIRTHYEAR |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|DEBUT |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |

2 Teammaster

149 Rows

|Name |Datatype |Size |Scale |Nulls? |
|TEAM |VARCHAR2 |4 |0 |No |
|LEAGUE |VARCHAR2 |3 |0 |Yes |
|START_YEAR |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|END_YEAR |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|CITY |VARCHAR2 |15 |0 |Yes |
|NICKNAME |VARCHAR2 |20 |0 |Yes |

3 Batting

80435 Rows

|Name |Datatype |Size |Scale |Nulls? |
|LAHMANID |VARCHAR2 |10 |0 |No |
|YEAR |NUMBER |4 |0 |No |
|TEAM |VARCHAR2 |4 |0 |No |
|LG |VARCHAR2 |3 |0 |Yes |
|G |NUMBER |3 |0 |Yes |
|AB |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|R |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|H |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|2B |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|3B |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|HR |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|RBI |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SH |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SF |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SB |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|CS |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|BB |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|IBB |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|HBP |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SO |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|POS |VARCHAR2 |25 |0 |Yes |
|BA |NUMBER |5 |3 |Yes |
|DOUBLES |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|TRIPLES |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |

4 Pitching

33574 Rows

|Name |Datatype |Size |Scale |Nulls? |
|LAHMANID |VARCHAR2 |10 |0 |No |
|YEAR |NUMBER |4 |0 |No |
|TEAM |VARCHAR2 |4 |0 |No |
|LG |VARCHAR2 |3 |0 |Yes |
|W |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|L |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|G |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|GS |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|CG |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SH |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SV |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|IP |NUMBER |7 |3 |Yes |
|H |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|ER |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|HR |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|BB |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|SO |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|ERA |NUMBER |7 |3 |Yes |

5 Fielding

113571 Rows

|Name |Datatype |Size |Scale |Nulls? |
|LAHMANID |VARCHAR2 |10 |0 |No |
|YEAR |NUMBER |4 |0 |No |
|TEAM |VARCHAR2 |4 |0 |No |
|LG |VARCHAR2 |3 |0 |Yes |
|POS |VARCHAR2 |3 |0 |Yes |
|G |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|PO |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|A |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|E |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |
|DP |NUMBER |4 |0 |Yes |

6 Sample Query

select ROWNUM "Rank", FIRSTNAME||' '||LASTNAME "Player", CITY||' '||NICKNAME "Team", LG "League", YEAR "Year", HR "Home Runs" from (select * from MASTER M, BATTING B, TEAMMASTER T where M.LAHMANID=B.LAHMANID and B.TEAM=T.TEAM and YEAR=:YEAR and LEAGUE LIKE :LEAGUE order by HR desc, LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME) where rownum < 11

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Sun4 E4500
4x or 8x 450 MHz SPARC
4 or 8 GB Memory
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