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Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1076312298.396131_at_yasure...
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>>Good lord Howard what have you been reading? Or perhaps not reading. >> >>Recyclebin?
Thanks. I was beginning think you had gotten horribly confused and were
looking at Sybase 10 or something.
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>>ASM?
Ready to rephrase your original post yet?
>
>>ADDM?
Then I'd suggest you put on a cup before you see this.
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>>DataPump?
How about the entire Streams thing connected with it? There is more
there than you are seeing.
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>>Grid
As much like you generous $5K offer no outside constraint on the date so get them ready. It may take 10 years ... but I'm calling this one in. ;-)
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.
It is relevant if you have even two or three servers. Look at the
environment where you have Oracle 10g, OAS 10g, a DNS server, and an
email server: Pretty common. Why not rope those barely used CPU ticks on
the DNS and OAS servers in for end-of-month billing?
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>>Surely you jest! This is ground-breaking.
Which is why I didn't point to it.
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> 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.
Look up the word "jaded" in your dictionary.
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> I'm being harsh, I realise.
Extraordinary. Makes me wonder what in Oracle versions 6, 7, 8, 8i or 9i would have gotten you to stand up and notice?
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
I think you are wrong. I think this is a very bold step. Software is
mature. There are not going to be any new killer apps. If they don't
shoot themselves in the foot by pricing this higher than SQL Server
this is the one that can be used to grab marketshare.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 09:05:26 CST