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Re: Oracle 10g - Diminishing DBA roles ...

From: Michael D. Long <michael.d.long-nospam_at_comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:16:53 -0400
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"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:73e20c6c.0409200633.1bc4ecdf_at_posting.google.com...

>

> Ah yes. And don't forget: if the app server is at 100% CPU usage
> and the db server is idling at 5% IO and 10% CPU, the performance
> problem "must be with bloody Oracle". Or so the mantra goes
> with "perfect" Java developers...

A perfect symptom of bad application coding if I've ever seen one. Good developers (regardless of language) are few and far between, and those that really understand scalable applications and bottleneck elimination are even fewer. I've often debated whether software development shouldn't be a licensed profession.

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Michael D. Long
Received on Mon Sep 20 2004 - 18:16:53 CDT

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