Re: Competition for OraPerf

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:29:59 -0800
Message-ID: <1162837799.172858@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:25:17 +0000, Richard Foote wrote:
>

>> But it's quite another thing to simply throw hardware at a problem, it 
>> invariable doesn't work unless the root issue is addressed.

>
> Unless you throw enough hardware. There a famous 80:20 rule: 80% of the
> possible improvement is resolved by investing 20% effort. I've seen
> hardware thrown at the problem, with good results. It wasn't SSD, it was
> EMC cache, pumped up to an incredible proportion, but the intention was
> the same and the result was, generally speaking, satisfactory.

On the other hand ... had they fixed the problem ... they would have had better architecture and likely spent the same amount of money.

I haven't seen a problem, in many years, where throwing hardware at it was the best solution.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Mon Nov 06 2006 - 12:29:59 CST