Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:33:45 -0800
Message-ID: <1072827131.694131@yasure>

Joel Garry wrote:

> My complaint is where Oracle evolving creates garbage out of working
> code.

Could you provide an example of this? Thanks.

>>Why do you think you should be able to use back-end tools to tune what 
>>has been coded into the front-end?

>
> Optimizer claims to be able to figure it out.

Are you saying without histograms, outlines, and hints or with them? If so this is a claim that somehow has failed to cross my desk.

> So why can't Oracle let us change things (that's a knuckle-wrap for
> the hints-through-source mechanism)?

Personally I'd like to see "hints" turned into "commands". I think I should be able to not just hint but demand. Oracle seems to disagree.

> So PL/SQL is the answer to all problems?

No. Neither is a hammer. Though both can be used to break a lot of things. I don't think I've ever said it was.

>>>Bingo! Yet, do you hear Oracle for ONCE putting some of those accounting >>>firms' nose out of joint? No way Josay!

I agree that they should. But then so should the victim's attorneys and I don't see that very often either.

>>Oracle's marketing is not pushing anyone out of a job but you are 
>>correct that a lot of people will probably lose their jobs in the next 
>>ten years. Same thing happened to all those that bet their careers on 
>>COBOL, RPT, ALGOL, shall I go on? You need to modify your skill set.

>
>
> Noons is able to defend himself, but I must say, Oracle has been
> pushing us to modify our skill set to what, java? Portal code
> generators? OEM buttons? My crystal ball is just showing the bottom
> of a quaranteed cow stall.

Java for years. UML, XML certainly. We must be light on our feet. The industry changes itself, dramatically every 10 or so years.

> Can't say as I've seen too many houses of ill repute that need
> database tuning :-)

I have it on very good authority that almost all of the major commercial porn sites are running on Oracle: One of which I tuned so with a little imagination you might find a lucrative new career. Just remember safe computing. ;-)

> jg
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Received on Tue Dec 30 2003 - 17:33:45 CST