Re: MONITORING

To mis-use the quotation:
  "Publish and be damned"

The oinly way we improve our guesses is
to hear other people who have differing details from different experiments.

I've just spent 3 days lecturing an audience that included Steve Adams, James Morle, Anjo Kolk, Stephan Haisley, John Beresniewicz and Bjorn Ensig; and I learned several very interesting details by saying:

    "When you do X, you observe the following anomaly     appearing on your system. But I can't explain why X     makes this happen."

Inevitably, someone from the audience would immediately say - "That's because .... "

This lead to an interesting 'Oak Table' discussion (still ongoing) about the concept of building a website dedicated to reproducible test cases. Basically it would contain a number of SQL scripts - each one describing a test designed to measure, or investigate, some feature of how Oracle works.

Inevitably the test cases would evolve as more people used them, and enhanced them to push the boundaries of their understanding - inevitably some conclusions from the results of test cases will be wrong. But if you don't start somewhere, you don't get anywhere.

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Brian Tkatch wrote in message <3c535315.1618790813_at_news.alt.net>...


>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:25:44 +0000, Connor McDonald

>>

>>Thanks for posting your findings...something people do not do enough of

>

>Happy to. I'd post more, but I'm afraid of showing more of what I

>don't know, rather than what I figure out. I may think I found

>something enlightening, only to have my ignorance in the area pointed

>out.