swhitmire
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Ok, I realize what I'm about to ask has no right answer, and could all vary drastically by platform/type of workload/size of database/CNC's earlobe length. So what I'm looking for is not any attempt to guess what it would be like for my environment, but rather some data points to start my thought process from. So, from people who've upgraded from Xe to 8.12 (or 9, if anyone's gone so far), I'd like to get a vague guesstimation of two things: 1) what level of performance impact/memory usage increase on your enterprise servers you saw, if you did it on the same hardware, and 2) how much bigger your total database size is now (assuming you converted business data to Unicode). I'm guessing the answer to #2 is going to be 40%-60%, from previous discussions we've had here, but I'd like to see a few people's specific numbers, if anybody's got them. I've really got no grasp on what the answer to #1 is going to be... from past posts I've gathered that the impact has been more significant than people have expected in some cases, but nothing more specific.