Re: Performance over a WAN

In addition to looking at the WAN you should compare the Oracle configurations (hardware and software) of your satisfied client to those of your unhappy client. Look for differences in the Oracle parameters. Also be sure to look at the ODBC drivers and the software your two clients are using to communicwith Oracle.

Elliott wrote:

> I have two clients who are running the same application (one that I
> developed) over their corporate WANs. This application is a window 32 bit
> app running against an Oracle database. One of them is getting good
> performance running over a T1 line, the other is getting terrible
> performance also over a T1 line. They are both running Unix servers. I can
> run the application over a standard telephone connection at 21,600 and get
> better performance than client number 2 above. I am running against an NT
> server. The client experiencing the poor performance blames the application.
> I am not that familiar with WANs and how they send and receive packets and
> if there is anything that can be done to improve performance. I do not
> really know where to start looking. If anyone can be of help with giving me
> some direction I would greatly appreciate it.

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Once I figured out how to spell DBA I became one Received on Mon Dec 13 1999 - 23:04:00 CST