Re: *****SPAM***** RE: Differences between Oracle and Progress, actually starting point for considering any migration from Oracle to anything else...

In light of the ASH licensing thread today, I think we need to ask whether the stopwatch is included or is an additional licensing option.

Jeremiah Wilton
ORA-600 Consulting
http://www.ora-600.net

Richard J. Goulet wrote:
> That's funny at a minimum and absolutely absurd at the other. How do
> you account for the delay time on the stopwatch button caused by the
> person holding the stopwatch?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> A brief look at the tuning section Progress OpenEdge RDBMS manual
> reveals that it also sports a sort of wait event interface, making it
> competitive with Oracle. I had to read it several times, because I
> thought "stopwatch"
> was an OpenEdge technical term. I was wrong.
>
> From the Database Essentials manual:
>
> http://www.psdn.com/library/servlet/KbServlet/download/1906-102-2517/gsdbe.pdf
>
> Collecting your baseline statistics
>
> Once you have determined what items you want to benchmark, you can plan
> your strategy. You can modify the application code to collect this data,
> which is the most accurate method, but it is also time consuming and
> costly. An easier way to perform data collection is to time the
> operations on a stopwatch. This is fairly accurate and easy to
> implement. To determine the best timing baseline for each task, perform
> timing in isolation while nothing is running on the system. When timing
> baselines have been established, repeat the task during hours of
> operation to establish your under-load baselines.
>

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