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"bobray" <quasimodo_at_genghis.com> wrote in message
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> Howard, explain yourself. When you have 250+ Oracle databases, 128
> terabytes of data in those databases...and several HP Superdomes....with
> ridiculous amounts of RAM and CPU....why would you think 65 dev and test
> databases on a Superdome is "criminal insanity" ? Frankly, it's not
remotely
> insane. As far as I'm concerned it's an easy job. I can understand how
the
> scale of the setup might scare ya'...but it's really no big deal.
> Production lives in it's own world completely separate from dev and
> test...and is locked down tighter than a drum.
>
And who said the old mainframe days were long gone :)
Looks like a mainframe... acts like a mainframe... etc...
Just 1 opinion here, but it seems there should be consolidation where it
makes sense. And, at first glance (and not knowing your details), I would
say your setup sounds like an extreme ... like one of them old(I dislike the
word legacy) mainframes.
If someone has given a lot of thought to this setup, just curious ... do
any of these databases have multiple application owners/schemas ... you know
a "shared Oracle database environment" (as opposed to a "shared server
environment - one that happens to be just sharing the server with multiple
Oracle instances/databases")?
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 05:05:20 GMT, bobray <quasimodo_at_genghis.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yep...I've got 65 databases and (unfortunately) 5 database versions
and
> 2
> > > listeners on one server. Some are dev, some are test...some are in
> > > archivelog mode, some aren't ...some are backed up hot, some cold.
Each
> > > has
> > > a different requirement from management and the users. Oracle is
> > > wonderfully flexible.
> >
> > I've got to say that 65 databases on one server is not "flexibility",
but
> > criminal insanity.
> >
> > So long as they're ALL dev and test, I could sort of, maybe, possibly,
> > understand it. I hope to high Heaven there are no prod. databases in
> there.
> >
> > That number makes me suspicious that someone, somewhere, sometime, has
not
> > understood the difference between a schema and a database in Oracle.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
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Received on Sun Apr 11 2004 - 00:59:22 CDT
