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
When I was hired as a DBA by a bank here in 1987 I used 1200 baud modems
to dial up and manage the 5.1.22 thing. Of course we used Kermit and set
host/x25 - very cool stuff back in those days. And free.
WebIV was fantastic. It was created by a few guys in Oracle UK Support,
among them David
On 2003.09.07 04:19, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
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
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
Mogens, do you happen to know the name of the Swedish or Norwegian
guy who wrote WOW gateway? He used 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.
And if you have nothing better to do, study the Full Disclosure Reports.
There's still cheating going on. More about that AFTER I get the award
:-))).
Stephane Faroult wrote:
http://www.tpc.org
Jake
Compare to what? Another database? To what its
performance should be?
Dennis Williams
DBA,
Nope, no Bill O'Reilly isn't available here. What is it and how can I
learn more about him?
As for the pictures, you won't believe how fat I look. In other words,
it was a good photographer who managed to capture me as I am. Here in
this country we consider anyone weighing less than 100 kilos
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
His name was Magnus Lönnroth or Lonnrott or something. He moved to the
US after coming out with the WOW stuff, and help bring out the OWA or
whatever it was called.
Mladen Gogala wrote:
Mogens, do you happen to know the name of the Swedish or Norwegian
guy who wrote WOW gateway? He used to be
On 2003.09.07 05:19, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
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.
I'm not an
Yes. RAID-3 is bit-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. Buy 33
disks if you're on 32 bit systems, otherwise buy 65. Then you'll have
fantastic performance as long as you have concurrency for the whole disk
stripe set to 1.
RAID-4, as used in the IBM Shark systems, have chunk-level
On 2003.09.07 05:04, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
Nope, no Bill O'Reilly isn't available here. What is it and how can I learn
more about him?
I would enjoy providing a detailed response but I doubt that Jared would
tolerate such an excursion into political pamphlets. I'll send you a private
response
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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
Oracle does site licensing... but only if you are a very very large
corporation. Citibank (when I worked there) had one. The company I work
for now has one.
So I don't ask do we have a license when I want to install a new
version of Oracle, even if it is a new platform
One of the few things that
VERY interesting. They refused to do site licensing at a 2
installation here. Thank you for this tip.
Rachel Carmichael wrote:
Oracle does site licensing... but only if you are a very very large
corporation. Citibank (when I worked there) had one. The company I work
for now has one.
So I
have you used DB2? How does it compare to Oracle? Ive seen tom kyte write
that each platform that DB2 runs on is in essence a different database and
you cant take code from one platform and move it to another.
are the features comparable? what about cost?
- Original Message -
To: Multiple
been too long since I've done any DB2 work for me to remember it.. I
was barely involved in the work then, primarily the Oracle DBA.
As for the site licenses... these are likely to have been in place for
a LONG time (I left Citibank in '98) and the company I work for now has
been around for a
Maybe the thieves are running Oracle on HP and they need to
add two more CPU to their server.
-Original Message-
From: Mogens Nrgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 9/7/2003 4:49 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Cc:
Subject:Re: Offshore threat
While I
In addition to the DBA_TABLESPACES view which is based on the TS$ table, the
V$TABLESPACE view is based on the X$KCCTS fixed table. X$ tables are purely
read-only from SQL or any other API into the RDBMS.
I believe that this view came into being relatively recently, in either the
v8.0 or v8.1
One of my previous employers had a site license. Not a huge
site, but not too small either. About 5000 employees, lots
of IT in that business.
Not only a site license, but a 72% discount. We had a *good*
negotiator.
Jared
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:34, Mogens Nrgaard wrote:
There's one thing
There are many kinds of deadlocks in the Oracle world.
The following MetaLink notes will be of interest.
166924.1
62365.1
There are no doubt others, but these are two I had bookmarked.
Jared
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:54, Mladen Gogala wrote:
Harvey Deitel: Operating Systems.
Andrew
how does DB2 compare to oracle cost wise? what about hard ware? does db2
require more hard ware than oracle does?
how does its features compare?
- Original Message -
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 2:24 PM
One of my previous
Most possibly Xerox, but I am not sure...
Regards
Rafiq
Yes, I will do that for you, my friend.
Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
http://www.hotsos.com
Upcoming events:
- Hotsos Clinic 101 in Sydney
- Hotsos Symposium 2004, March 7-10 Dallas
- Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details...
-Original Message-
Mogens Nørgaard
Sent: Sunday,
Hi
This would be a security risk to have a java callout that can execute
any OS command with group ID DBA, this means it could for instance..
call sqlplus -s and execute a script that changes the SYS
passwordedit the password file and change the password hashes to
known values...why not just
Hi
Have a look at Yong Huangs web site, I cannot remember the URL but there
are links to some of his pages including his X$ speculations on my page
http;//www.petefinnigan.com/orasec.htm - look for Yong Huang
hth
kind regards
Pete
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes
Does
I've never been to Open World and this year will be no exception, but as it
turns out I'm working Tues-Fri in Sacramento, only two hours up the road or
so I'm told. If they release me by 5:00pm then (theoretically) I can be at
Chevy's by 7:00pm or so. As Rachel and Jared can attest, I'll drive
You sir, are one hell of a great communicator! I'm placing my order now...
on 9/5/03 7:19 AM, Cary Millsap at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
I swear, he drives insane distances for a drink and dinner.
And Tim -- they NEVER have one drink and then leave these are DBAs
you are speaking of!
--- Tim Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never been to Open World and this year will be no exception, but
as it
turns out I'm working
Hi List,
I was wondering if anyone knows a technique to make a query read an index
in parallel without issuing an alter index ... parallel 2 command? With
a table the parallel hint works fine but I've never seen it done for an
index.
The query which requires the hint will be issued as a
hi, GovindanK:
I searched metalink and cannot find note:287936.999 you mentioned.
And I did not move the IOT index segment and overflow segment online. I
did those operation during system outage.
Thanks.
Regards
zhu chao
msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.cnoug.org
- Original Message
Cost is the easy one. They run comparable to Microsoft or thereabout.
They have various options I haven't looked at yet, that might make them
more expensive than that. The DB2 on mainframes and the DB2 on Unix, for
instance, were written by different teams. Which might explain why they
didn't
Nah, that's not neccessary. It's the same guy that took them from 7 to 8
and who will take them from 9 to 10 :-), namely our Jutland Department
named Johannes.
We had a meeting about iAS in the Danish user group the other day
(OUGDK) titled Can you get by without iAS?, in other words is it
Well-Spoken Indeed
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Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:44 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Yes, in your experience...and maybe most of the other lister's
experience...majority of the time its true...
That's because you people are the best DBAs I've seen...
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