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Well
Ross, Our campus is out in the country (just about everywhere in Montana is out
in the country) and we are, indeed, surrounded by docile ruminants. I'd like to
say that during our off-time we go out and gaze lovingly at their udders, but
there are other things we prefer to gaze at lovingly.
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Of
course, we have no problems doing online dairy backups around here.
:>)
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We use
MySQL here and yes it's tunable. There's even word out on the street that soon
MySQL may support the concept of a transaction. What a
concept.
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MySQL
has its place, but it's causing us no end of pain here. It doesn't scale well
enough to support what we're doing. That's why we're painfully biting the bullet
and paying the big bucks for Oracle.
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--Walt
Weaver
Bozeman, Montana, USA
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<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Mohan, Ross
[mailto:MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com]Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
8:51 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:
RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service
Walt, you have just shattered my picture of you as a gentle
man surrounded by docile ruminants, never uddering a
discouraging word.
Yes, it's amazing, the price of the software. My line to
folks is: "For your money, Oracle is the best
database...if it were my money, it would be almost
anything but.."
MySQL *is* tunable.....could be fun....
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Weaver, Walt [<A
href="mailto:wweaver_at_rightnow.com">mailto:wweaver_at_rightnow.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:21 AM <FONT
size=2>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <FONT
size=2>Subject: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service
Say, is it just me or has the cost of the Updates Subscription
Service gone up considerably in the past six months or
so?
We're currently pricing out what it'll cost us to purchase
8.1.7 Standard Edition and the numbers we're getting
are a heck of a lot higher than they were in
November.
Has the cost of CD-ROM's gone up that much? Is the economy now
in an inflationary period? Where's Allen Greenspan
when you need him?
Whatever happened to those hazy, golden, halcyon days when
upgrades were included in product support?
Sometimes, Oracle just sucks. I'm seriously considering
getting on track for a MySQL
certification. :>)
--Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana,
USA -- Please see the official
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Author: Weaver, Walt
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