RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Hel

Especially management decisions like the one that started this thread.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boivin, Patrice J [SMTP:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
> Sent: Thu, February 28, 2002 1:38 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design.
> Hel
>
> I guess the reverse of SAME is EMAS, where Everything Makes Absolute
> Sense.
>
> : )
>
> NAS, is that the same thing as a SAN?
> Network - Attached Storage
> Storage Area Network
>
> Here we have a couple of "SANs", but I think they also fit the description
> you gave of an NAS.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:53 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re:RE: RE: Manager decrees "his" data warehouse design. Hel
>
> S.A.M.E, Stripe And Mirror Everything. It's a concept that came from an
> individual at Oracle with a significant pile of alphabet soup after his
> name
> who
> has lost most of his credibility anywhere.
>
> He was speaking though of Network Attached Storage (NAS) stuff where you
> really don't have to worry about the mount point/drive letter where you
> put
> the
> datafile(s). These neato devices do make some of the DBA's tasks of IO
> balancing meaningless since they do stripe data across multiple disks and
> run
> hardware mirroring in the background. In turn they retrieve your data
> from
> the
> most efficient place possible & buffer your writes in cache memory that
> 'guarantees' that it will absolutely make it to disk.
>
> What I think has happen is that some of his idea was taken out of
> context,
> though not out of quote, and made meaningless. You should still have
> logical
> database design and multiple tablespaces/datafiles. It's just that you
> really
> don't care is everything is on drive H.
>
> Dick Goulet
> PS: I've not implemented such an idea & have no intention thereof in the
> near
> future. Reason, NAS storage is not here.
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: "Michael Cupp" <michaelcupp_at_SHONAC.com>
> Date: 2/27/2002 1:20 PM
>
> S.A.M.E.?
>
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