RE: connection pooling from an application server to oracle

Correction... Homo sapiens does not have the largest brain in the animal kingdom. Elephants have larger brains and sperm whale brains weigh in at a whopping 20 pounds. So this is not necessarily a case where size matters, it's the spirit within that makes the difference. Of course the size of the cerebral cortex may have something to do with it. ;-) There reason for larger brains in larger animals is the increased need for "connection pooling" because of the larger size of the nervous system. So you see, even nature recognizes the need for enhanced connectivity requirements. :-)

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Mladen Gogala
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:24 AM
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On 12/15/2003 10:54:27 AM, "Mercadante, Thomas F" wrote:
> But Mladen, sooner or later, somebody is going to wise-up and catch
> you in your attempt at passing the blame. When this happens to me, I
> quote to 80-20 rule. 80% gain in application thruput is brought thru
> Sql tuning (or rewrite). If they say "The database is slow", I say
> "Show me the sql that is slow". If they say "I can't because it is
> coming from the app", i say "Then I can't help you".

You're very optimistic about your fellow humans. I am not. Homo sapiens sapiens is a funny species. It is bestowed with the largest brain in the animal kingdom and usually very grateful when not forced to use it. As a matter of fact, any excuse is welcome to prevent the little grey cells (here I'm shamelessly
stealing from Poirot) from ever getting tired. At any rate, it's politics. I'm trying to achieve something for the benefit of
my employer and I'm being obstructed by sleazy sales person aided and abetted by
damagement. Chances of them figuring me out are remote. I'm a DBA, I interpret
database statistics and it says what I say that it says. There are complications
when sleazy sales people bring in their own consultant DBA personnel. Then it is
a matter of discrediting the hostile DBA. I have to say that this tactics has to be applied only there where there isn't
enough common sense to talk it through with the DBA and make him present the situation as it really is. Those are the places which distrust and fear their own DBAs. That is the first and foremost sign that the damagement has taken over. We, the DBAs hold this truth to be self evident.

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA

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