On Oct 20, 4:39 pm, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Oct 18, 9:44 pm, Steve Howard <stevedhow..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > Has anyone purchased the Hotsos resource profiler tool? I have read
> > Cary Milsap's book and appreciate his deep knowledge of performance
> > tuning. I wrote my own very limited 10046 trace parser a few years
> > ago, so I also appreciate the effort involved in such an effort.
>
> > We are being quoted $10K US per user though, and I am wondering if
> > anyone who has used has found it to be much more useful than just a
> > 10046 trace coupled with the instance performance views and grid
> > control (both for which we are fully licensed).
>
> > Also, how does orasrp compare to it?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Steve
>
> I am not and will not say bad things about the hotsos resource
> profiler. It was a wonderful gift to the oracle world having Cary
> write his book and offer insight into how to take apart a 10046 trace.
>
> The tool orasrp has been very useful to me and continues to have
> important capabilities added to it. The latest version works
> extremely well and had all the functionality that "was" present in the
> hotsos resource profiler recently.
>
> Personally I would recommend you take out the latest version of orasrp
> for a spin. If you have the money to support Cary and his
> organization that's all fine and good ... I was not able to offer my
> management any significant reasons to choose that tool over a free and
> highly capable one.
OK, thanks.
Received on Mon Oct 22 2007 - 10:28:34 CDT
