Performance forecasting

        First off I've lost whoever is the list owner these days, old age catching up with me. But I'm going to go out on a limb here. Yes this does have an Oracle twist to it.

        For those of you lucky enough to go to Open World, doesn't include me, take a moment to stop by the BEZ booth in the vendor hall. Now I don't work for them, heck I don't even get a free trip to Open World from them. Anyway, they have a product called BezProphet that has been popular(their words) in the TerraData space for some time now and their branching out into Oracle and DB2. Now I'll leave 99% of the sales pitch for them, we're currently beta testing their V1.0 release of the Oracle prediction engine and it ain't bad. They are not into the normal monitoring type of task, due to their architecture their at least 1 hour behind your database. Their forte, which from the beta is 90% accurate, is forecasting when things will become problems 1, 2, 6, 12, 24 months into the future. They can also take changes in your server or disk system and make a forecast of what will happen & track the actual to the forecast. They can even merge say a play environment for a new application or module into an existing production database & predict how everything will behave. Like I said it appears to be 90% accurate & the graphs are so pretty for the upper damagement types to.

        So I'll pass along something that we've been playing with that may make some of you happier. New toys are always nice.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified DBA

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