Re: Musings on 'new' OFA standard

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:09:10 -0800
Message-ID: <1166479750.556488@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

sybrandb wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:

>> Valentin Minzatu wrote:
>>> Not sure if this helps, but I think I saw OracleHomes in the past being
>>> created by the Grid Control installer and as far as I remember there
>>> was no way to override that.
>> Not sure if it can be overridden (just because I haven't tried) but
>> it is definitely an artifact of the Grid Control.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>> (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
>> www.psoug.org

>
> Oracle 10g Grid Control seems to be build on top of iAS. In iAS all
> layers have their own homes, ie OHS, Infrastructure, and database.
>
> This applies to Grid Control too.
> As Oracle has teamed up with hardware vendors, you can't change that.
> Or is the real reason the various layers have been developed by
> different teams, and no proper quality assurance is in order.

Definitely developed by different teams. And seemingly rarely do they talk with each other. Here's one of my favorites:

SQL> select distinct package_name from all_Arguments

   2 where object_name = 'SLEEP';

PACKAGE_NAME

---

DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE
DBMS_DRS
DBMS_LOCK

And yes they all seem to do exactly the same thing with exactly the same syntax.

BEGIN

   dbms_backup_restore(3);
   dbms_drs.sleep(3);
   dbms_lock.sleep(3);

END;
/

see you in 9 seconds. <g>

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Mon Dec 18 2006 - 16:09:10 CST