Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!news.state.mn.us!not-for-mail From: TurkBear Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: METALINK access question Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 08:34:09 -0600 Organization: Minnesota Governmental/Educational Agencies Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <3cac05d5$0$236$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> Reply-To: jgreco1@mn.rr.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.dot.state.mn.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.state.mn.us 1017930852 929 156.98.4.11 (4 Apr 2002 14:34:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.state.mn.us NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:34:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:142027 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:32:02 MST (news.easynews.com) In addition, any organization that is running Oracle in a production environment with mission-critical data should ( and I almost mean must ) have a service agreement with Oracle - a penny saved can be a dollar lost.. "Niall Litchfield" wrote: >"R Chin" wrote in message >news:a8fuj7$lbr$1@news.panix.com... >> I have never been on METALINK..... >> >> I understand that access to METALINK requires an organization to >> have a service contract (TSI ?) with Oracle. (expensive ?) >> >> Is access to METALINK unlimited after that then ? >> If so, do we as developer have the "right" to ask DBAs/Data management >for >> service contract info so we can access it , and maybe learn something ? > >IIRC Metalink access is supposedly limited by the support contract that you >have, having said that it appears that I can access a lot more information >than I would expect (for example the unix info and oracle apps info) so >maybe this is in fact not the case. As to wether as a developer you have the >"right" to do so I'd expect you to have access to the support knowledge base >of any and all products you work with. Failure to do so would in my view be >a failure of the organisation. > >Don't forget technet either http://technet.oracle.com or the manuals at >http://tahiti.oracle.com