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From: joel-garry@home.com (Joel Garry)
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Subject: Re: Oracle On Compaq Server
Date: 3 Mar 2004 14:45:05 -0800
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"Syltrem" <syltremzulu@videotron.ca> wrote in message news:<grl1c.627$Xy3.2434@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>...
> "Joel Garry" <joel-garry@home.com> a écrit dans le message de
> news:91884734.0403021630.46a8bf5d@posting.google.com...
> > > I have OpenVMS running Oracle, Gembase 4GL, Progress rdbms & 4GL, Basic,
> >
> > Gonna be going to Gembase 7 any time soon?  How 'bout that Oracle
> > optimizer, eh?
> >
> 
> As soon as we get a problem fixed with Multinet (runs so slow with Oracle
> 817 and +)
> Gembase 7 only supports Oracle 9i. We have experimented somewhat already,
> Ross did fix a bug or 2 in Gembase. Should be fine when we get there.
> 
> And yes, what about the optimizer?
> Is there someting I'm not aware of? I use CBO already if that's what you
> mean.

Yes, that's what I meant.  Have you not run into a situation where you
needed to hint?  What do you do to analyze?  (contact me at
http://www.garry.to if you want to continue this offline, I'm very
interested in your experiences.)

> .
> >
> > So what does Oracle do?  Makes you run more than one machine and calls
> > it a feature!
> >
> 
> I don't get this one. I really have 2 boxes in a cluster with counted users
> license. One machine goes down? I restart the db on the other one and users
> just reconnect. No need for parallel server/RAC. Less than one minute of
> downtime and it rocks !
> But you don't need more than one machine to get Oracle running...

I was referring to the Windows comments referenced in the > . , as
with the 10g grid stuff that Oracle is pushing.

jg
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