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To: Mark Palmberg who wrote (3537)	11/3/1997 4:04:00 PM
From: Xpiderman	Respond to of 19080

Nasdaq Takes Oracle8(TM) Production -- Early Sites Up and Running With Next Generation Database for Network Computing Segment Partitioning and Advanced Replication for Hundreds of Gigabytes Eases Administration, Support and Backup WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL) today announced that the Nasdaq Stock Market has successfully deployed its first Oracle8(TM) production database. The Nasdaq Stock Market becomes one of the first sites to go into production with Oracle8, Oracle's next-generation database for network computing, since its launch June 24. The first Nasdaq Stock Market application to benefit from the Oracle8 database's strong support of Very Large Databases (VLDBs) is a ''Knowledge Discovery'' database of 166 gigabytes. Known as the Advanced Detection System, or ADS, the system integrates data mining and data visualization as essential components of a break detection system. Built around a data warehouse containing Nasdaq trades and quotes, it has an anticipated growth of 40 gigabytes per month, imposing significantly more planning, administration and operational challenges to Nasdaq's DBA staff. ''Of all the many software components we've acquired to implement our migration to network computing, Oracle8 has proved to be the most robust,'' commented Oscar Zavala, associate director, Database Administration for Nasdaq. ''We are actively migrating our VLDBs to Oracle8 for very simple operational reasons. VLDBs require more administration, support and backups, and Oracle8's support of VLDB features such as table partitioning and incremental backups make these tasks scalable and more manageable.'' Nasdaq is planning to migrate all of its production databases residing on Sun Solaris and Sequent Dynix platforms to Oracle8 to support its large Decision Support Systems (DSS). Oracle8 is expected to provide robust performance, advanced replication and segment partitioning to help manage Nasdaq's Very Large Data Bases, with Oracle8's ability to scale up to a theoretical limit of 512 petabytes and 30,000 concurrent users providing substantial headroom for Nasdaq's hundreds of gigabytes. Nasdaq has been especially impressed with the Oracle8 advanced replication and segment partitioning capabilities, designed to ease management and maintenance of the organization's massive database needs: a 800 gigabyte Market Data Server, capturing daily trading information; a Research and Data Analysis Repository (RADAR) data mart; a Late Trade Reporting ''Knowledge Discovery'' database; and a Common Services database. Nasdaq had been planning to break its Market Data Server into a distributed system to ease backup and recovery tasks, but Oracle8's segment partitioning instead enables Nasdaq to divide the VLDB into monthly partitions. Segment partitioning will also help Nasdaq better manage its space usage in these massive and ever-growing databases, performing routine maintenance on specific segments of the database without bringing down the entire application. Advanced replication synchronizes the Common Services database, a distributed three-way system containing shared corporate resources information such as users, products and services. ''Nasdaq demonstrates Oracle8's readiness to deliver on the level of technology advancements truly demanded by our customers,'' commented Mark Jarvis, vice president of System Products Marketing, Oracle Corp. ''Nasdaq played a vital role in our beta program, and we are delighted to see them now moving so rapidly into production with such a demanding application.'' Oracle8 offers extensive product improvements while maintaining backward compatibility with Oracle7(TM) implementations, a key benefit for Nasdaq. Nasdaq adopted Oracle as its corporate database standard in 1993 as part of its transition from legacy applications to a network computing environment. In addition to the Oracle8 implementation, Nasdaq currently has 50 development projects underway supported by 150 different Oracle(R) databases. Oracle's portability gives Nasdaq the flexibility to choose the platform best suited to its application needs. Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of $6 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than 140 countries around the world. For more information about Oracle, call 650-506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is (URL) oracle.com. NOTE: Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle7 and Oracle8 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE Oracle Corp.