Hi Tim,
Are you sure it's still owned by Veritas? Doesn't look that way when I
checked it just now.
Mogens
Tim Gorman wrote:
Helmut,
Register with http://www.oraperf.com; and run those STATSPACK reports
through the YAPP analyzer, which will reformat them in such a way that they
make sense.
Hi Helmut,
There are so many opinions about this that it's hard to point at one
specific document or recommendation. If anything, start with stuff
written by Graham Wood (who has done a good deal of the work on it),
Bjorn Engsig (ditto), or such guys. Also, Tom Kyte has something about
it in
Yeah, you might not be able to open it, but you can nearly always mount it.
Rachel Carmichael wrote:
as opposed to the ever-present Oracle kernel which is arbitrary,
gobbles up all resources in sight and costs the earth to maintain?
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Lies, lies and viscious rumors. It was only the loft of the Garage, and
the idea was to create a new, exciting space for the Oracle Museum,
complete with webcams.
I had planned
Lies, lies and viscious rumors. It was only the loft of the Garage, and
the idea was to create a new, exciting space for the Oracle Museum,
complete with webcams.
I had planned the Miracle Master Class Teambuilding Exercise as follows:
1. On Sunday evening we would (slowly!) move the stuff
I demand to know who the other one is!
Mogens
Rachel Carmichael wrote:
you leave me such straight lines :)
which part is qualified as an accountant?
you volunteer to be the sacrificial lamb? Hm, masochist?
Before Jared tries to send everyone over to my list on this topic, I'll
try to
Heh-heh. It should be said in all fairness that we don't really spend
much time with our website (keeping it updated, for instance - just to
mention one minor detail), so we certainly understand if people are
asking for directions there :).
One very un-serious question: Is it actually possible
, that we also do a Profanity Class 101 for the
speakers during the event? I could teach some of it.
Mogens
Gary Goodman wrote:
We may have to add a 'Mogens Nørgaard' profanity clause to the Symposium
speaker agreement. I will admit that profanity from Connor does not
carry the same impact as profanity
If the restore/recovery thing from backup doesn't work (it usually
does), it's time to panic in a controlled fashion...
Dump the block to see if it's a hard or soft corruption.
A hard corruption is when some kind of stray write has hit the block,
causing one of many checks against eg the rows
Friends,
I'd like to start a debate, which perhaps has already taken place, but
if so I don't recall it: Should we stop analyzing tables and indexes?
Let me clarify:
I've always told people that using the 'monitoring' option (alter table
X monitoring in 8i, plus alter index I monitoring in
on him, gave him a beer, and
put him to sleep on the floor.
He thought he had received splendid support :-).
I'm sure this could become a textbook case in some future book by Tom
Peters and other management gurus.
Mogens
Carel-Jan Engel wrote:
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Sent
And I think it's important to realise that ratios are useless as a
starting point in the tuning process on any system, not only Oracle.
Most OS'es and databases use not instrumented correctly to deal with
response time measurements (makes you wonder: If response TIME is what
matters, how can
I think Dave Ensor, at the recent UKOUG conference, called it his
portable tuning kit:
select elapsed_time, cpu_time
from v$sql
order by elapsed_time;
Mogens
Connor McDonald wrote:
Yep.
Simple example: Even though it seems to be sometimes a
little on the 'random' side, the ELAPSED_TIME
Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
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It's the Best of Breed versus One Vendor debate, and there are pros and
cons galore.
The perfect scenario, of course, is when they combine, so one
It's the Best of Breed versus One Vendor debate, and there are pros and
cons galore.
The perfect scenario, of course, is when they combine, so one vendor
delivers the best of everything. That's what we have with Microsoft,
isn't it? ;-) : Office stuff, OS, Database, ERP, CRM, video player,
I don't, but perhaps Lex does? He's crazy about that Join stuff and even
has a whole one-day class on mathematical methods in SQL. Also, he has
written a book on SQL, that still sells well - but it's in Dutch, so
you'd have to learn that language first :).
Lex - welcome to the Oracle-L list
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I would go for the one that promises to have a RAID-5 implementation
that doesn't suffer from the usual RAID-5 problems. Heh-heh.
Mogens
Jay Hostetter wrote:
One of our hardware guys is seeking an opinion on SANs. He is comparing the Hitachi Thunder 9500 to the HP EVA 5000. Does anybody have
We've had to set the _optimizer_features_enabled or whatever back to
8.1.7 and/or _new_initial_join_order (which defaults to true in 9.2.0.4,
at least) to false after seeing a lot of problems going from 8.1.7 to
9.2.0.4. It's happened a couple of times, but I'm not sure if it's a
trend or not.
And the plans for this, I was informed from a manager at HP last week, are:
- It's beta on VMS on Itanium now
- It can run in a cluster with an Alpha box
- Possible release in 3rd quarter of 2004
Mogens
Tanel Poder wrote:
Maybe you all already know that, but HP is planning to support OpenVMS on
I love to read the Full Disclosure Reports:
There were 672 x 18GB15krpm HDD Ultra320 HP, 1344 x 36GB15krpm HDD
Ultra320 HP and 224 x 146GB 10krpm HDD
Ultra320 HP in the benchmarked configuration.
FYI: 672+1344+224 = 2240.
IBM is considering a 1.6M benchmark, and the only problem these days is
as I have enough internal storage to keep an
entire hot backup set on disk, along with a member for each redo
log, and a controlfile, just in case.
Pd
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Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
Today it's only a question
How about: Keep re-analyzing your tables and indexes. Run
gather_statistics (or whatever) all the time.
Bobak, Mark wrote:
I think this subject has been done to death. We should talk about less contentious issues such as:
- The buffer cache hit ratio, your friend in expert Oracle tuning!
-
It's on www.baarf.com and there are some pretty good articles there.
Best regards,
Mogens
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anyone got the articles about why raid 5 is bad for databases?
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expensive.
Thanks,
Matt
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Etagon invited me to come and visit them at their stand at the UKOUG
conference in Birmingham next week. Don't know if I'll have time or not,
but in general I'm still looking for hard evidence of financial savings
using RAC, ie a real comparison where switching to RAC (on whatever
platform)
Just wait till we post Jesper Haure's RAID-4/5 simulator, where a
home-written XOR function plus a table with column A = disk A, etc... It
should be ready RSN.
Mogens
Carel-Jan Engel wrote:
Hi Jack,
Any BAARF-compliant solution will do.
Look at www.baarf.com
At 12:34 2-12-03 -0800, you
dbms_stats is the only sanctioned way to do it.
Orr, Steve wrote:
1 database instance, 2 nearly identical schemas. What's the best
sanctioned way to copy stats, (including histograms), from one schema
to another?
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Oh yes, even Lego complained about the price increase of support,
upgrade rights and software. It was very steep. But they all accepted
that the real price of their software had been covered up by Digital
selling other things like hardware... Oracle just sells software. Still
it was a problem
a political
issue, and therefor most of the BS has been avoided.
Nothing - nothing - beats leaving the folks alone to do the job. That's
why the bearded fellows have kept working at the NEDC (New England
Development Center), as I think it's called.
Mogens
Thater, William wrote:
Mogens Nørgaard
As the AWE (Award-Winning Educator) of the year, I have a huge
responsibility placed on my shoulders: I have to answer questions
regarding Rdb truthfully.
So here we go...
Back in the year 1994, Digital very discreetly asked their three biggest
customers (including Lego) what they thought of
It's still on the price list. Download the latest price list from Oracle
and search for rdb - it's on page 4 out of 9. $40K per cpu - just like
Oracle EE.
Trusted Oracle, to my knowledge, had nothing to do with Rdb. Lots of
useful stuff came into the Oracle code from the Digital guys.
Bellow,
Oh well, even though we're not talking about RAID-F anymore, let's break
the rule now and then :-).
It's funny to see how the technical guys say the correct things, the
vendor guy says some rubbish, and the manager guy decides to do as the
vendor says. Maybe that sort of interesting decision
I didn't think there were other clustered databases?!
Mogens
Pete Sharman wrote:
If you're a member of the UKOUG (probably unlikely, but worth a try!)
it's on their web site I believe.
I still haven't managed to get Jonathan to add my editorial but every
example you give would wreck ANY
Amen. In Miracle we'll do nicely in the years to come by being able to
support VMS, PL/SQL (the COBOL of the databases - widely used, very
efficient, not in vogue anymore for new projects), perhaps Oracle (if it
goes the way we could fear), UNIX (which is certainly dead now - if you
had any
At the Database Forum here in Denmark recently we had one presentation
comparing stuff between Oracle, SQL Server and DB2:
The Heterogeneous DBA by Chuck Sodowsky from Quest. It seemed to me
like he knew what he was talking about. Maybe he can help? I don't have
his email present.
Mogens
*//*
You had everybody convinced by your speach down there in South Africa! I
think actually SQL Server SE is 1/3, not 2/3, of Oracle SE and 1/2 of EE
as you state. DB2 is about the same as SQL Server. No idea about Sybase.
I have this radical idea that Oracle should include RAC in SE at no
extra
I think Cary has put performance tuning on a solid math foundation, not
just the Oracle one. I'm writing a little paper (not much yet) on why
you can not optimise any other system right than the MVS environment and
the Oracle database. The MySQL people are currently reading Cary's book
and
What's wrong with having a Scandinavian accent?!? :-). I remember taking
a class by Andre Bakker, a Dutch genius, who at one point was VP of
Support in Oracle, when I joined Oracle. I couldn't figure out why on
Earth you would want Oracle version 6 to run on a fax... until I
realised a few
A fine response, Richard. Thank you.
One of the guys coding the index stuff was/is Jonathan Klein, and I
remember asking him some years ago about reuse of index blocks, and he -
at that point - said that he was pretty sure he put the reuse of leaf
blocks into 7.1, but that branch blocks didn't
At least I would then die with a broad smile on my face, knowing that
that version was delayed, too...
Pete Sharman wrote:
Sure, I've got an accurate rumour. Of course, I'd have to kill you if I
told you. Do you really want to know that much? :)
Pete
Controlling developers is like herding
We had a question recently on the list about RBO still physically being
there in 10g or not. I asked Graham Wood in Development, and here's his
reply:
==
RBO is still there.
De-supported means that if you find a bug, such as wrong results, in RBO
it will not be
I'll be in Paris. Have to receive my Oracle Magazine reward and admire
La Defense - or vice versa.
Mogens
Stephane Faroult wrote:
I have just received an e-mail from Tanel saying he had not had the time
to participate recently and enquiring about any list get-together at
Oracle World Paris. I
Start the script from another script?
Johan Muller wrote:
A script dumps out table info. (sqlplus on aix 4.3.3 and oracle 8.1.7).
I cannot suppress the PROMPT@path/scriptname and
PROMPT spool off statements from the report output.
The script contains both set heading off and set feedback
Gaja, Anjo -
The question was: Is the data that users have uploaded to OraPerf now
available to Veritas? It's a fair question that deserves more than a no
need for any concern answer :-)..
Perhaps it would be good if Anjo explained why and how this happened.
You know I love you, Gaja, but why
I'm pretty sure that RBO is still there in 10g :-), but that it will not
be enhanced, P2 and beyond issues won't be fixed, etc. But to be
certain, I have asked Graham Wood.
Mogens
Cary Millsap wrote:
I'm pretty sure that RBO is *gone* in 10g. If I understood correctly
what I learned this
Tom has a small staff to help him answer the questions. I find the
comment from Raj to be less than fair and intelligent - or we all
misunderstood what he meant (including me).
Mogens
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I don't know whether Tom does all of the asktom site on his
own time, but I doubt
It went very well. Gaja was flying, and it was good to see 15 members of
the OakTable playing air guitar at the same time on stage.
The girls were crazy with Gaja, and for good reasons. I have decided to
make a musical next year, too. This massive mass of talent must not be
wasted.
Mogens
Check out www.baarf.com regarding RAID levels.
Check especially the Sane SAN paper by James Morle as to do's and dont's.
EVA stuff is expensive, and some of our customers have had to spend much
time and money on spare parts and consultants. Others have been happy
with it.
Mogens
Jeroen van
May I just add that his real name is Gaja Vahatneyhatneyhatney. That is
what I called him in BAARF. The Musical..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our good friend Gaja Vaidyanatha is now with Veritas,
so this isn't really too surprising. :)
Jared
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Not at all, Chris - here you go.
Chris Stephens wrote:
Hey Mogens...
Would you mind sending me a copy of that paper?
Thanks either way!!
chris
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Compress to impress? by Julian Dyke
Sir Visser -
The honour is mine. We shall BAARF around the world in the years to come.
Mogens
Piet de Visser wrote:
Sir Norgaard, Group,
Accepted, I think #43 is rather cool,
as in: life, the universe and everyting++
I'll have to postpone review/critque/shredding of any
text, statement or
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I've seen the same kind of confusion with respect to the partitioning
option, where people have been
Indeed. It's SO cool to run the version 5 thing again. Will you be at
the UKOUG conference in Birmingham in December by any chance?
Robson, Peter wrote:
Ah-a - NOW I see why you want my old version 5 manuals!!
peter
edinburgh
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And of course the Trace File Repository thing that Torben Holm from
Miracle made. Not half bad either. And free.
But nothing beats the Hotsos profiler in completeness and ability to
interpret the complex situations in these 10046 traces correct. And the
whole notion of not-accounted-for is
Was it not Dave Ensor that once concluded that x$ tables actually change
less than v$ tables?
Tanel Poder wrote:
I'd suggest, when possible, not to use any x$ views, but stich with plain
old documented ways. That way you'll probably avoid a lot of confusion,
especially when database versions
I've seen the same kind of confusion with respect to the partitioning
option, where people have been informed by their sales rep that
partitioning option is part of EE. Well, yes, if you pay extra for it.
Mogens
Hemant K Chitale wrote:
If the question is about price [referring to
Well, we have a good, working 5.25 floppy drive installed on our Oracle
Museum PC (486, 25 MHz) now, and we're planning on installing
WordPerfect 4.2, Lotus 1-2-3 (with the plug-in for Oracle, which Cary
will bring over for the Database Forum next week), and other goodies. We
have 5.1 running,
Sir Visser,
It would be my honour to enroll you in the BAARF party as party member #
43 if you like.
Also, if you enroll, I'll send you the whole BAARF.zip file (33 K) which
contains the story, the dialogues, and the song texts of the BAARF
musical which we'll do at the Database Forum Gala
I HAVE to ask this question: Is it possible for you to turn off RAC and
thereby completely avoiding this issue?
Yeah, that's kind of funny. Except it isn't, really. Invalidations of
objects, drops, in general breaking of breakable parse locks - they will
all need to be communicated to all the
Just talked to Jonathan Lewis from Helsinki. He went through some of the
examples given in the latest issue of Oracle Magazine, and they were
just plain wrong.
I can't recall them in detail, but I think one of the questions were
which parameter to set in order to let a user do large sorts. In
an additional
check to sign. I got a verbal confirmation from my oracle sales rep
and I'll try getting a written (email) one as well.
--
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Oracle DBA
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Compress to impress? by Julian Dyke is a good presentation on this
topic (see for instance http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/jan03/jan30ab.htm).
I do have the article - 202 K with no compression, 147 K with
compression :).
Let me know if you're interested, and I'll email it directly to you.
Oh man, that would be cool. He can choose any membership number above
44...for instance 10046 :-).
PS Would you like to be a member yourself?
Mogens
MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:
Garth Gibson, one of the original inventors of RAID
(http://www.panasas.com/bio_gibson.html), and currently CTO of
Well, Sir Tim - congratulations with your BAARF party membership # 44.
The BAARF.zip file will be shipped in a second.
Mogens
Johnston, Tim wrote:
Hey... I'm jealous!!! BAARF! BAARF! BAARF!
Tim
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Can't deny you such a good and simple wish. Welcome as BAARF Party
member # 69.
Mogens
Joe Testa wrote:
I figure I have to wait for a while to get BAARF party membership #69,
bwahahahahahha
i'll go back to programming php against mysql :)
joe
Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
Well, Sir Tim
Pity not the tree. Pity the twig.
Thank God he didn't use too many colors.
Wolfgang Breitling wrote:
Download it for yourself from
https://www.oracleworld2003.com/published/36849/36849_Kolk.ppt
and see for yourself. But you better have a high speed connection.
At 05:19 AM 9/22/2003 -0800, you
I'm way beyond the simple RAID-F systems these days. I now want mirrored
RAID-F systems! We could call them RAID-F1, and they're unique. You
might waste parity disks in the first place ... but then you mirror them.
Mladen Gogala wrote:
Files are kept safe simply by RAID-5 mechanism. RAID-5
Yeah, I was reading and reading for hours studying the fine print of his
presentation :-).
Niall Litchfield wrote:
All of it? how did you plough through all the detail?
Niall
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Bernard of Oracle Holland made DUL (Direct UnLoader) several years ago.
I took the very last internals class conducted by Oracle Support EMEA
Vice President Andre Bakker (the only VP to conduct internals classes, I
think. I also think he quit Support in disgust some time later :-) ),
and we
Lies, all lies. I've heard myself snoring.
Pete Sharman wrote:
I can guarantee that won't happen, since Cary's singing is pretty much akin
to Mogens's snoring! :)
Pete
Controlling developers is like herding cats.
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!
I'm not sure I understand. Is this a query that should access a 470
record table and which uses Parallel Query in a RAC environment? And
when it works, it executes in less than a second?
If yes, have you tested this query without Parallel Query?
If no, where did I misunderstand you?
Best
I'm very sorry. By some error I never got this message sent. So here it
is, over a month too late. Fantastic...
Mogens
==
Ah, good to be back online with Tim Gorman on the old and wonderful 1575.
1575 was introduced in 7.1. Not as an
Connor rules.
Tim Gorman wrote:
I've performed nm -o oracle and strings -a oracle on the Oracle
executable, searching for the phrase sstiomax to no avail. To me, that
implies that SSTIOMAX is not a variable in the C program that is Oracle.
Instead, by C programmer conventions, any name
Well, no I haven't seen him actually take a shower, but one must hope
that the sound of running water for 42 minutes followed by silence for
another 21 minutes must mean that water has run down Cary and not just
down the drain.
And although I haven't seen him take the shower, we're many
Well, we've begun to put good stuff about RAID-F on www.BAARF.com,
including the good writing by Art Kagel mentioned below.
One of the fantastic gems that just arrived today from a good source is
the one from Sun where they describe a very unique way of implementing
RAID-10 that actually makes
Correct. You can follow his announcement on www.Oracle.com at 2PM PDT.
Babette Turner-Underwood wrote:
Yes, but then all the listers who have been DYING to fill us in,
will be allowed to finally spill their guts, no?
- Babette
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It's also called Graham in a Box internally in Development because
Graham Wood put some effort into it. It's Statspack on steroids plus
more, but it will of course still be as useless as Statspack wrt
system-wide measurement data. It does contain the SQL stuff if you ask
it to, and that's
/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
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Correct. You can follow his announcement on www.Oracle.com at 2PM PDT.
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Please see
Makes sense.
Peter Barnett wrote:
Let's see if I have this straight, the US is nearly a
half trillion dollars in debt. It is going to add at
least another 87 billion to that number. It has just
reduced taxes on its citizens. And, now it is good
for the country to send its best paying jobs
System/Database Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
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Subject: Re: 10g
Correct. You can follow
Yes, Larry will announce it tomorrow. The software will not be available
to customers for a while, though.
Boivin, Patrice J wrote:
The release date and the shipping dates may be different, not sure.
They also may not have it ready for all platforms at the same time, see OCS
Release 2, there
Yeah, it's rather cool to read. I think it was Connor who originally
forwarded them to the OakTable list. But we ran into one example where
it made sense: A customer needed to move an application from Sybase to
either Oracle og SQL Server. Well, it was way easier to move the
Transact SQL (or
Yeah, well, when all the American IT companies conquered (spelling?) the
world and ran the Danish HW-vendors in the ground, as well as a lot of
small and medium sized SW-shops, I think - but I could be awfully wrong
here :-) - most Americans thought that was because we were too
expensive, too
No, no, no, no. You just live on the wrong side of the world, these days.
TestG is old, gone, dead. It's Test/g/ now. Has been for a couple of
weeks. Notice the italics. Don't make users more ten'se than neccessary.
The first one who sees a production version of Tense/g /will forever be
known
It's not easy, because IBM has about 42 versions of DB2, but in general
their SE/EE prices are similar to SQL Server, ie a third and half of
Oracle's.
It's a good point about support costs. Microsoft runs at 25%, Oracle at
22%. Comparing is hard, of course, since you can often get
Wish I could be there, but I can't. It will be Paris for me this year,
and of course an award-winner lunch with the editor of Oracle Magazine
and others :-).
I wish I could be there with you guys, though. Cary - could you have a
Margarita for me, please? Double, lots of salt?
Mogens
Steve
They're hired by the people who came out of those very same
universities. Most often McKinsey et al are hired to OK decisions that
management have a hard time OK'ing themselves for various reasons.
To be fair, of all the consulting companies that make money out of
telling people that water
There's one thing that IBM can do, which Microsoft and Oracle can't
offer: They do site licenses as well as cpu and user licensing. That
just gives them an incredible advantage to management and others who can
stop thinking about whether they should buy another server, move stuff
from one
As another shareholder of Oracle (worth about $1.42 as I recall it), I
think it's worth noticing that the richest guy in the universe at first
thought this Internet thing wasn't really going to take off. When it
did, he moved his company around very, very fast to embrace it. Perhaps
not
Oracle thinks the combined readership of Oracle Magazine and Profit
Magazine is about 1 million. Sounds plausible to me.
Of those 1 million, about 10 will see the ugly pictures of me in the
November issue. Two of them will remember it. The other one will be my
financee Anette, who also works
Well, the title is You PROBABLY don't need RAC, and I did actually
(but just for fun to see his reaction) propose to Cary that I would do a
You Probably Don't Need Oracle presentation at the Hotsos Symposium.
He didn't reply to that. So instead I'll do You probably don't need a
goat.
The
And Tom Kyte is Author of the Year, by the way. Man, I feel honored and
humble at being in company with Arup and Tom on this stuff. At least
they do real work. All directors do is talk to other directors on the
mobile or have lunch with other directors.
Niall Litchfield wrote:
Congratulations
Yep. If you benefit from using more memory than what 32 bit stuff can
handle, then of course 64 bit will help. If you don't benefit from more
memory (that's likely to be the case for most), then 64 will just add
overhead. But if the vendors are pushing 64 bit, then management will
buy it. It
Can instead of Will is probably only in the case where there's only
one user on the system :-))).
Cary Millsap wrote:
Yes. Even with TIMED_STATISTICS=TRUE, relying on *any* statistic with
system-wide scope can waste your time. For a 34-page introduction to the
rationale behind this proposition,
While I was still in Oracle, thieves broke into the offices of Oracle in
Oslo, Norway, and removed two HP cpu's from the main computer there.
They ignored all the nice laptops on the tables around them. Now, that
is weird.
Mladen Gogala wrote:
Two IBM mainframes stolen? Boy, the times are
feminine.
If you're not a member of Club 100, you're not a real man, in other words.
For Cary's information, 100 Kilograms is about 4TB Pounds rounded to the
nearest SquareGallon.
Mladen Gogala wrote:
On 2003.09.07 04:19, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
Oracle thinks the combined readership of Oracle
By the time of the UKOUG conference in December we should have Miracle
Breweries up and running. Capacity will not exceed two batches per week.
However, each batch will be 400 liters each. For Cary's information,
that's about 0.42 gallons.
Niall Litchfield wrote:
Jesse wrote
Put down the
Another fun fact about the OS390 port: If you set max dumb ( :) ) file
size to 50 MB, then the session will write 50MB, close the file, open
another one, and continue writing trace data to this one, and so one,
until the session is done.
Tim Gorman wrote:
As an interesting side note, Oracle
to be a member of this list. WOW
was the first thing to be able to access the oracle database through
the CGI interface. That guy was phenomenal, I believe that he has had
a part in WebIV as well.
On 2003.09.07 04:34, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
When I was hired as a DBA by a bank here in 1987 I used 1200
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