Re: a sad story for Oracle DBAs

Man, you guys play nice, will ya? We're all in the same boat here!

What I would like to say is this: CONGRATULATIONS on finding a client that you can get plenty of repeat business from!

Kindest regards,
Dave Sisk, certified Oracle DBA

Zhencan Fan wrote in message <6g34bo$dbh_at_dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>...
>Just heard this REAL story from a friend. It's no joke.
>
>One prestigious consulting company is going to deliver an Oracle
>data warehousing system for a client. Here is the hardware configuration:
>Windows NT 4.0 running on quad pentium pro 200
>896 MB RAM
>About 50 GB Harddrive space
>
>Guess how much memory they assigned for SGA: 18MB! Remember this machine
>is dedicated for this data warehouse. And they complained that Oracle on
>NT sucks!
>
>The fact that the company treats its technical people as second class
>citizens pretty much predicted this consequence.
>
>A sad story for Oracle DBAs or what?
Received on Sat Apr 04 1998 - 00:00:00 CST