From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Jun 22 15:31:49 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5MKVnbK024671 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:31:49 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5MKVmNi024667 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:31:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 756E21C2DE2; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:25:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04229-08; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:25:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id EDEE21C2192; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:25:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42B9BB38.3080809@allegientsystems.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:25:44 -0400 From: Mladen Gogala User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Oracle-L (E-mail)" Subject: Metalink forums - effects of the outsourcing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-archive-position: 21498 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mgogala@allegientsystems.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mgogala@allegientsystems.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 In galaxy Milky Way, a long, long time ago, Metalink forums were actually useful. There was a guarantee that an Oracle person will take a look at your question within 24 hours and respond to it. Responses were meaningful and useful. Obviously, Oracle Corp. followed the famous Dogbert recommendation about cutting costs of workforce and Metalink forums ceased being useful. Did anybody manage to have a question answered in a meaningful way by an Oracle person lately? Do I have to open a TAR for every little question? It's annoying as heck. Someone from SUN or Oracle support has told my boss not to use LOG_CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT in the RAC environment but to create a crontab job switching logfiles instead. We're moving our batch jobs to OEM and I'd like to know the reason for such a recommendation. It seems that I'll have to open a TAR with this question. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l