Re: Help with intermittant slow down

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:36:18 -0700
Message-ID: <1120516596.866104@yasure>

Lee wrote:

>> Perhaps you didn't notice that I posted this in 
>> comp.databases.oracle.server.  ;-)
>>

> You fooled me (or let me fool myself) by saying "....ASM issue and have
> nothing to do with the database" , so I didnt think to look for it in
> the Oracle world. My bad.
> Overgenerallized "not to do with database"

For those not familiar with ASM ... the reason for the confusion is that an ASM instance is just that ... an instance. There is no database. There are no datafiles or tablespaces or log files, etc.

> But there are boatloads of overloaded TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms)and
> "terms of art" with different meanings in different corners of the info
> technology world and way different meanings in other fields.

I know isn't it cool? Add to that Oracle's most important position C-Level position, Executive Vice President of Product Renaming, and you've a winning combination.

Surely everyone has noticed that App Server has been renamed yet again.

I'm waiting for the promotion in some trade magazine claiming 45% more acronyms than DB2. Oops ... a product whose name IS an acronym. ;-)

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Mon Jul 04 2005 - 17:36:18 CDT