Re: Is Sr. DBAs afraid of not be able to pass cert exam ??

> And then we get sites replacing 10X10Gb sized disks of 80Mb/s access
> speed by 2X50Gb sized disks of 120Mb/s access speeds, completely
> ignoring to ALSO upgrade the controller and its cache. And then they
> wonder why the performance is so bad and hasn't changed with the
> latest "upgrade", when the manufacturer "guaranteed" it would.
> "Must be the fault of those wretched ORACLE people again!"....

AMEN to that - I hate shit like that !

"Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:3c5a644b.947415_at_news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> Tom Dyess doodled thusly:
>
> > Woah, back up a minute - OCP certified and he doesn't know the
> >difference in speed of memory and disks? You must be exagerating.
> >
>
> Who said it's a "he"? ;-)
> No, I am not exagerating. I get asked questions by this person that
> would NOT be asked if it was aware of these differences.
>
> Of course the OCP questions mention that. But do they explain or
> cover ALL the different possible combinations of their relationship?
> And ALL the possible ways they can interact? No, they don't.
>
> And because the matter is not explained in the proper context but
> simply in a "mark the box" question of "what is faster, disk or
> memory?", people get the impression that this is all there is about
> it. Not so.
>
> And then we get sites replacing 10X10Gb sized disks of 80Mb/s access
> speed by 2X50Gb sized disks of 120Mb/s access speeds, completely
> ignoring to ALSO upgrade the controller and its cache. And then they
> wonder why the performance is so bad and hasn't changed with the
> latest "upgrade", when the manufacturer "guaranteed" it would.
> "Must be the fault of those wretched ORACLE people again!"....
>
> And so many other pearls of "marketing wisdom". I could go on and on
> describing some of the complete idiocy passing as "technical
> knowledge" these days, but it gets depressing.
>
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 08:09:05 CST