Re: Oracle vs DB2 on heavy OLTP loads

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:46:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1116441701.294106@yasure>

dbguy456_at_yahoo.com wrote:

>>cause of database instability is incompetent SysAdmins and DBAs

>
> That's what support wants us to think. I have quite different point of
> view though - no incompetence on the side of SysAdmin/DBA should be an
> excuse for DB instance crash, period. Poor performance? Sure. Invalid
> results? Could be. Diagnostic log full of error messages? Sure.
> Instance crash? No way.

Not a chance you are correct. I would venture, with confidence, that 80% of all major crashes can be equated with SysAdmins and DBAs that don't know what they need to know to be truly competent. In spite of your overabundance of confidence I doubt your DBA team would survive intact a serious screening. Want to find out?

When was the last time your DBAs actually read the Net Services manual? Which version of Oracle was current? My guess 7.3.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)

Received on Wed May 18 2005 - 13:46:00 CDT