Re: Rac on Linux

JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2006-09-13, HansF <Fuzzy.Greybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:18:54 -0700, hpuxrac wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Do you like your database vendor to also provide your file systems?
> >
> > Why not?
>
> You no longer have access to your database using standard
> well establish, well known and well understood system level utilities.
> Your filesystems are now a blackbox that only Oracle can penetrate.
> Your are COMPLETELY dependent on Oracle for everything.

As if you aren't anyway.

Oracle stores tha data. Are you able to use any tools to get at the data other than Oracle's tools?

As long as there is a utility out there that can provide the appropriate backup and recovery - as Oracle's RMAN does - and as long as the vendor of the utility provides support and is willing to provide 24x7 support ... does it really matter?

Do you really mind having all eggs in the Oracle basket, if the golden egg (the data itself) is already in that basket.

Why is 'penetrating that black box' so important? And in these days of SarbOx and other compliance rules, is it a good thing or a bad thing to be able to penetrate that black box?

Is this really just a matter of comfort and wanting to keep control? Or is there a real business reason behind the need for that control? (If there is, I can not see it yet - and am interested in the debate.)

/HansF (using my gmail account ... as the stoopid hotel network blocks port 110.) Received on Tue Oct 10 2006 - 20:29:24 CDT