Databases, schemas, application, method

Question

Hi,
Thank you for reading my post.
I am wondering about what would be the "Oracle way" to
handle the following problem. Suppose that:
- one has to do one's inventory EVERY YEAR,
- there can be about 20.000.000 (20M) tuples involved
every year.
What would an Oracle DBA do:
1) create a new Oracle DATABASE every year (copied from
the previous year one)?
or
2)
- the first year: create a new database D
and a first schema dedicated to the first year inventory
in that database
- and then create a new schema every year in that unique
database D (again copied from the previous year schema)?
or
3) ... (or maybe have you thought about another way to
do that)?
Please tell me.
Thank you and best regards,
Lmhelp

Answer 1

Hi,
Thank you for your answers.
skvaish1 said:
Please tell us your current thinking (I think in back of your
mind you are referring to MS Access or SQL Server).The project I am working on already works correctly with both
MS Access and MySQL.
Let us say (for the sake of simplicity) that every year a new
inventory needs to be done:
in our project, a new database is created: either a MS Access
database or a MySQL database.
This is the way it works.
I was wondering about doing the same with Oracle: creating new
databases. But creating a new Oracle database takes 20 min and
maybe is not commonplace... I don't know...
Thank you for telling me about partionning tables but, given
what I said above, it is not an appropriate solution, is it?
We just want to do as little work as possible and of course
we do not want to change drastically our code.
Thanks and sincerely,
Lmhelp