Re: Databases and Enterprise Storage

One of the big reasons for buying the 'Enterprise Storage' solution is that it's all a nice big black box and you don't have to worry about what's going on inside.

Most DBAs seem to spend a lot of their time trying to find out what is going on inside the database.

I sympathise with your common sense DBA perspective, I once spent several weeks trying to explain to management that the problem was clearly inside the big black box and they should try a produce a map of which bits of wire were sending data to which discs.

One of my rules of thumb - if it's an Oracle database avoid any discs bigger than 9Gb: and I bet your Enterprise Storage boxes are talking about 36Gb+.

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Jonathan Lewis
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Doug Coan wrote in message <8a5l9s$hbs$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...


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>You can imagine the stance I am taking from a common sense DBA

>perspective as my minor dealing with only partially dedicated DASD has

>been horrendous. But, I wonder if anyone out there actual lives in this

>type of environment. I would like to share your stories (good or bad)

>with our decision makers and perhaps learn if there are some tpis/tricks

>which make this remotely feasable.

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