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Re: Multiple installations of oracle on a single unix system

From: D Rolfe <dwrolfeFRUITBAT_at_orindasoft.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:55:59 +0100
Message-ID: <408E666F.3030009@orindasoft.com>


>>adminstration problems by moving *everything* onto a single E10000.
>>Strangely enough their lives didn't get any simpler......
>
>
> Worst decision i ever heard of in database business.
>
> keywords: single point of failure, compare prices of a big iron and a
> handful off cheap boxes, one heavy user DB is nearly stopping all
> others......, one mistake a the whole production stops
>
> Toni

It wasn't my idea! I tried to explain to them that what they had done was like a zoo where they made things simpler by putting all the animals in one really big cage but they didn't get it......

This wasn't the only adventure I had there either. We had told them not to bother with raw devices when installing our product but they insisted.

A week later they demanded that I show up on site *the next day* because our application 'wasn't working'. They were located 9 time zones from us! $7000 and one night in business class later I get off the plane at 7am, get to their office by 8:30AM, find an index with 250,000 (yes, that's thousands) extents by 9am and by 9:15AM have established that when creating one of raw devices they entered '10K' instead of '10M' for   NEXT when specifying default storage parameters for the tablespace.

I spent the next two days doing everything I could not to crack up laughing every time I spoke to them.......

David Rolfe
Orinda Software



OrindaBuild turns PL/SQL into Java faster than aircraft engines turn money into noise.

www.orindasoft.com Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 08:55:59 CDT

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