Re: Bouncing Serving

Dereck L. Dietz wrote:
> We have an off-site database (10g R2, Win2003 Server) that gets bounced
> twice a week on a schedule.
>
> The reason I was told is that our "vendor" (the people taking care of it)
> recommended it to "flush junk".
>
> Is there any real reason to bounce a server twice a week to clear memory (or
> anything else for that matter) that could/should be handled by having the
> database actually configured properly?

Fire the admins.

If there is a real problem this isn't diagnosing and fixing it. If there isn't a problem they are incompetent and/or dangerous.

My instinct is the later ... not the former but getting someone that knows what they are doing is the correct solution either way.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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