Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1076312298.396131_at_yasure...
>
> >
> > Good lord Howard what have you been reading? Or perhaps not reading.
> >
> > Recyclebin?
>
> You mean the flashback past drop ability. Quite brilliant, I agree.
>
> > ASM?
>
> That one I also grant you. (Automatic Space Management). Could make things
> very much easier, and better performing too.
>
> > ADDM?
>
> Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor for those less familiar with the
> alphabet soup. Still not ball-grabbingly exciting. I've yet to recover from
> the torpor the 9i advisories induced in me.
>
> > DataPump?
>
> Can you really get excited about export on steroids? I can't. So I can now
> start an export job and disconnect from it, letting it run in the
> background. Wow! I used to minimise the terminal window to achieve the same
> thing, though.
>
> > Grid
>
> Uh huh. And how many people are actually going to end up using this wonder
> we call grid. If it reaches 20% of the install base, I'll eat my kippers
> cold. It's new, exciting and the buzz-word du jour, but it has relevance
> to... er, not too many. The ones it is of relevance to, of course, are the
> huge corporations that pay most of Oracle's bills, so good luck to them on
> that. But it's exotica -and it was well-trailed, too, so no real excitement
> even there.
>
> >
> > Surely you jest! This is ground-breaking.
>
> No, it's all little iddy-biddy bits of nice-to-have convenience. Which is
> good, but not smashing. Take the business about glogin and login.sql being
> re-read after every connect, instead of only when SQL Plus is loaded...
> that's good, and has been on my personal wishlist for a while now. But it's
> hardly technologically ground-breaking stuff, is it?
>
> I like the idea of transportable tablespaces across O/S platforms. That
> one's clever. I like the fact that flashback can go back past table drops -a
> brilliant way to avoid having to do incomplete recoveries. I like the fact
> that RMAN can be made to run in a particular maintenance window, and will
> throttle itself back and forth to achieve the backup in the desired
> time-frame. These are good things that will likely make a difference to an
> awful lot of people. But a flushable Buffer Cache? A log file size advisor?
> Yet another advisory to explain why materialised views won't fast refresh?
> These are all a bit of a yawn.
>
> I'm being harsh, I realise. And probably not making any friends at a certain
> well-known corporation, either. I'm just saying this sounds like fleshing
> out of 9i, not a bold new step into a new version. The grid stuff is clearly
> brand new, and the '10' is almost certainly largely because of that... but
> apart from that...??
>
> Regards
> HJR
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True - but direct mode import is a nice (and very overdue) touch
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Connor McDonald
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Co-Author: "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL - Practical Solutions"
Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 05:34:24 CST
