From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Oct 28 16:04:58 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9SL4wgM008628 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:04:58 -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 j9SL4nvX008606 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:04:50 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id A7BED21151B; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:04:35 -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 25445-06; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:04:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 2F35B2112EB; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:04:35 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 305802112B3 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:40 -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 24915-02 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.206]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D6598211192 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s8so458611wxc for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:02:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XPLSoG/0SEcJnoW1Lkew2op8A3hvptmaK3NgrCPf0rHXq94QEkb9q0BF1zdbLRUIZKfrjTkxEBdvyUYiLaUwSsipvI+9OwTRevyWpeKxhruFw2q2/QLI5E1nlKo1AXpR2d6QqZhnAsmOuY/UAy0/MWkki74d0U+lAb85gEd75Ww= Received: by 10.65.119.5 with SMTP id w5mr411200qbm; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.150.13 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:02:39 -0500 From: BP To: oracle-l Subject: Re: Sybase tool to compress Oracle (5 GB => 1) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: X-archive-position: 27795 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: brian.peasey@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: brian.peasey@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET autolearn=no version=2.63 Never mind. It's an ODS ... "Operational Data Store" ..... glorified Reporting server. Am I still a neophyte if I hate vendors who say ....here buy our product and save space, but you have to buy another server and more hard drive space. TGIF Brian On 10/28/05, Jesse, Rich wrote: > Applying "Method R" (been using that a lot today), the real question is > "Why?" To fit the DB on an SD card for a PDA? Hmmmm...that gives me an > idea... > > I wonder what their compression would do to an ACID test. I suppose it > would depend on where the compression was happening, whether it's via > PL/SQL or an external tool/hack or whatever. > > Just thinking aloud... > > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of BP > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 2:24 PM > To: oracle-l > Subject: OT: Sybase tool to compress Oracle (5 GB => 1) > > > Hi Everyone, > > Sorry if this is off topic. I've been asked to attend a conference > call regarding a Sybase product that compresses Oracle databases. I > hope to get time to scan the vendors website this weekend and learn > more, but just curious if anyone else has heard of this product or is > using it? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. > > Thx > Brian > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l