"Brian Peasland" <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message
news:3EF07A7B.8AF4066F_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> > If we wanted one server per instance, I doubt we'd even have the floor
> > space. I've also lost count of the instances we have to monitor; but
monitor
> > them we do. And we do the development DBA stuff as well...
>
> I think that this is part of the point. If it were an ideal world, we'd
> have one instance per server. And my development server, test server,
> and production server would all have an identical configuration. But the
> real world has cost constraints. We can't afford to have one instance
> per server, all with identical configs. So we do the best with what we
> have, and that often means running multiple instances on the same
> server.
>
Amen.
Paul
Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 15:00:14 CDT
