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

From: Richard J. Goulet <rgoulet_at_kanbay.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:09:24 -0400
Message-ID: <C3EE2ADD31ACF64DAB1B236044A1968D68D307@miaexc01.kanbay.com>

Of course it's extra, you don't think those things come for free do you? Platinum plated no doubt as well.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremiah Wilton [mailto:jeremiah_at_ora-600.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:53 PM
To: Richard J. Goulet
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: 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/g
> sdbe.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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