Re: Business justification for Oracle db server?

Hello,

Also beware of large additional expenses around the decision like finding justification for hiring expensive DBAs or as alternative signing very more expensive SLAs ... do you have Oracle trained staff?

You will almost for sure incurr in large more additional expenses if you find yourself requiring (probably new staff will ask for it immediately):

• Database ER design tool that integrates with Oracle e.g. QDesigner.
• Database Management tool e.g. Quest TOAD (I can not live without it).
• Database third party tuning tools e.g. Quest Central or TOAD Tuning Xpert.

Would you be able to tell what Oracle can do for you that other free Database Server can not do e.g. MySQL?

Possible answers are (just to mention a few):

• Need for large set of extensions to ANSI SQL (e.g. Analytic Functions)
• Full-fledged database programming language PL/SQL.
• Parallelism, queueing, etc.
• Oracle Web development with Forms PL/SQL.
• Oracle TEXT.
• Function-based indexes.
• Tables Partitioning.

I think of Oracle like buying a Ferrari, is a hell of a product, but you have to pay extremelly expensive services and you should not care about how much will cost changing a broken mirror.

Regards,
Giovanni

"database_prof" <database_prof_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1114753281.880585.65140_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello! I need to write business justification for Oracle db server
> being installed in our company. We have issue with many small Access,
> Excell spreadsheet data storages, and need to have reliable and up to
> date database of inventory. We also hope to have web front end access
> for users to view and modify that data.
> I vote for Oracle, but will need to write down business justification
> for it before proceeding with using server and installing Oracle.
>
> Can somebody throw good ideas on how and what to put in business
> justification for this case, maybe example of already written
> justification?
>
Received on Fri Apr 29 2005 - 02:39:40 CDT