Re: Pro's & Con's on Oracle & SQL Svr?

Absolutely.

Daniel A. Morgan

wayne wrote:

> > After all, high availability and scalability actually means "is the system
> > there when I want to use it", and "can I get the performance I need to do
> > this task now, or do I have to wait". These issues are experienced by all
> > sites, both large and small, and do NOT necessarily only equate to sites
> > supporting 50,000 users online 24x7.
>
> I did not mean that small shops do not need what you say... Indeed they do
> and could benefit from it. I spoke from the point of view that it is much
> easier to do those things on a small-time shop than on a big DB: In a
> small system you can tell everyone to get out of the system for five minutes
> while you back up (for example). It is equivalent to an Oracle cold backup,
> and is something impossible to do on a big shop: There are lots of things
> going on that cannot be stopped, there are people using the system that you
> do not even know who or where they are, and you will _not_ be down for only
> five minute for a cold backup.
>
> For these reasons, trivial things in a small-time shop that MS Access and/or
> dBase do not even begin to worry about, those things are huge deals in a
> bigger DB that Oracle enables you to handle much better.
Received on Sun Apr 01 2001 - 01:26:15 CST