Re: DB Buffer Cache Size

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:46:27 +1000, "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote:

<snippage>
>On the other hand, a DBA or manager needs to have yardsticks by which to
>judge or assess a product, even if there's nothing much beyond that he can
>do. When you are evaluating two potential competitor products, . . . "
>

Who gets to evaluate two potential competitor products? The only experience I've ever had with shrink-wrap is "The user department has purchased this. Make it work." Or the slight variation, "The user department has purchased this. The vendor has already installed and configured the server, the db, and the app. Make it work."

The closest I've *ever* been to evaluating a product was sitting in a meeting where the proposed vendor was asking about moving the data from Oracle to Access for reporting because "we've found that Oracle slows to a crawl with more than ten concurrent connections." You can draw your own conclusions.

<snippage> Received on Wed Aug 25 2004 - 07:36:24 CDT