But don't forget that I'm always wrong.
Mogens
Broodbakker, Mario wrote:
Mogens, the only problem with your statement about 'oracle myths & king of the new world' is that the only way of looking at SQLServer performance is probably looking at ratio's: there are no wait statistics, there is one(1) latch wait counter though! for the complete system :( (apart from some other almost useless perfmon counters, taht is..)regards, Mario -----Original Message----- Sent: maandag 17 februari 2003 23:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I see it from a slightly different (and probably wrong) angel, at least regarding the performance of things and databases: If you've worked with Oracle databases for some time (and have real experience), and know about the myths and their anti-thesis (use the wait interface instead of the ¤&#% ratio crap, know about RAID-5, don't have too many indexes, concentrate on LIO instead of PIO, etc.,etc.) you'll do quite fine. As Peter Gram once said to me: It's all about getting a database to perform on a platform. You can take your old presentations regarding Oracle myths and change it into a SQL Server or mySQL presentation, change a few details, and be king in the new world. Mogens Robert Eskridge wrote:Curiously, the basics are common across styles of cooking. You have to learn to coax the flavors out of the fresh ingredients and transform them into the proper texture and finish. Once you've mastered Italian cooking, you may not be a top notch German cook, but you're probably just a recipe or two away from being able to produce a very nice German meal... Databases have a certain similarity. If heading an Oracle project and I was given the choice between two people to work on my project, one having been the lead architect for a top notch product based on Sybase, and the other being an OCP that had worked on lack luster products, it would be hard not to pick the former. F> Following the same logic..... if I learn to cook a good Italian dish, then I F> must automatically be an expert in preparing top-class Chinese, German, F> Malay, Hungarian and French cuisine .... Yeah, right ! F> Ferenc Mantfeld
