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HansF wrote:
> So have I. Generally for one of two reasons:
>
> 1) As a result of their experience with RMAN in Oracle8. (And, of course,
> since it was not ready for prime time then, obviously it can't have
> improved in the mean time. <g>)
>
> 2) They have their own way of doing backups, and are happy to pay money,
> either to a third party vendor or to their development staff, to keep it
> going. (Unfortunately in my experience, often without a restore mechanism.)
>
I've seen a third-one:
they run Standard Edition and RMAN's functionality on
that one is brain-damageed and they can't take full
advantage of the product. So they stick to the good
old scripts that do exactly the same.
Received on Sun Jul 31 2005 - 20:40:01 CDT