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Niall,
Well, OK, I will agree. It does depend on what your goal is. If your = goal is to make some performance charts look good to damanagement then = you tune in that direction. If on the other hand your goal is to have = end user panels run well you tune in that direction. But it still = depends on what the end result needs to be.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:06 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: New oracle myths?
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:36:35 -0400, Goulet, Dick <dgoulet_at_vicr.com> =
wrote:
> I'd say "lightly referenced" as being more correct. Don has the =
smarts =3D
> not to call anyone out by name.=20
Sometimes it is appropriate to reference by name, sometimes it is inappropriate. I'm in 2 minds here. ISTM that a number of different authors were probably in Don's mind when he wrote the article. In this case I think that I am more confused by the lack of references than not. For example it is entirely possible in the Old Myths section that Don was referring to my Myths document. It is equally possible that he was referring elsewhere.
> But I will agree with his one =3D
> statement, and I quote:
>=20
> The standard answer to almost every Oracle question is, "It =
Depends."
I'm beginning to hate this answer because it is nearly always only the first half of an answer that should read "It depends on .....". For example in another place someone asked "how do I perform a recovery from a cold backup in archive log mode" To which the answer is "It depends" but here it depends on what was lost, what you want to do and what you have available. What I don't like is "It depends" being used as a euphemism for lets try a variety of things and see what happens.
--=20
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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