Re: Is it just me?

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:SkGVb.126082$U%5.608570_at_attbi_s03...
> Perhaps it's the document ? We autogenerated the New Features Document
> this year from the Project/Feature database so that it just lists the
> new features, and there is very little positioning or rah-rah in it.
> Perhaps this was a mistake ?

It is probably a mistake from a marketing perspective. That isn't a problem for me :(. On the other hand it can be very dry. For example

SQL Tuning Advisor
SQL Tuning Advisor is a new server tool that eliminates manual tuning of SQL statements as an input and gives advice in the form of precise SQL actions for tuning the SQL along with their expected performance benefit. This feature also introduces a new capability for SQL tuning of packaged applications without requiring any modification to the application code.

And that's all. If these features work as the 2 line summary suggests, then they will make Joe DBA's job a *lot* easier. Of course that is a big IF, but after pages of this stuff it is easy to miss the implications of what you are reading. Maybe it would be nice, and would require a business case to be made in the project/feature db, to also list the business case behind why feature X made it in there. Obviously this would require some intervention "now we compete better with sybase/sql server" might make unfortunate reading in an Oracle Corp document :(, but stuff like "we find that our customers spend a lot of time and effort and generate 2000 support calls a month 'fixing' things that are just fine, this feature will eliminate this particular misconfiguration" might be worthwhile.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK