Re: DASD Disk Layout Advice

From: Mladen Gogala <no_at_email.here.invalid>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:46:11 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2009.12.14.19.46.09_at_email.here.invalid>



On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:33:20 -0800, joel garry wrote:

> On Dec 12, 1:44 am, Noons <wizofo..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>> Mladen Gogala wrote,on my timestamp of 12/12/2009 9:34 AM:
>>
>> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:20:53 +0100, Frank van Bortel wrote:
>>
>> >> And disks are cheap, duplicate cheap, and it's still cheap. But a
>> >> whole lot more certain!
>>
>> > Disks are cheap, especially somebody else is paying for them.
>>
>> Bingo!

>
> I just got an email from Oracle corp about how 11g can lower storage
> costs by 10x. Clicking on the link goes to a marketing page which
> includes this bullet point:
>
> Compress all types of data to minimize storage requirements
>
> But the stupid page overwrites "storage requirements" with a button to
> "FIND OUT MORE". So it tells me:
>
> "Compress all types of data to minimize FIND OUT MORE"
>
> I always thought we used databases to maximize finding out things. I
> guess less is more these days.
>
> jg

Joel, you must be reading my mind. Look at the subject named "Compression" that I just started. As for your idea about maximizing, I do not subscribe to the "big is beautiful" principle. I don't subscribe to "size doesn't matter", either. We're talking about compression, of course.

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