"Sean M" <smckeown_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Another example might be a support organization. Each telephone analyst
> might need a scratch instance to run simple tests on. You have 60
> analysts. It would not make sense to buy 60 servers to run 60 test
> instances on. You buy 2 or 3 big ones and run 20 or 30 many small
> databases on each. Again, peformance takes a back seat to managability
> and cost, but that's perfectly acceptable and sane - the correct choice
> for this particular example.
I rather suspect that the 'correct' choice is to equip the support analysts
with a decent intel machine running win2k as their workstation and install
Oracle on each workstation.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Tue Jun 18 2002 - 03:07:50 CDT
