Re: Oracle 10g upgrade - performance issue

On 07/12/2006 08:36:25 AM, Alex Gorbachev wrote:
> If one have time to play with various troubleshooting methods than it
> better be something rather scientific like already mentioned "Method
> R". ;-)
>

Method "C" ensures much more fun. It's like making rain or praying to the sun: it brings people together in funny rituals and works approximately 20% of the time. Managers usually love it as there is a Number with the capital "N" that is responsible for their performance. Now, all we need to do is to appease the Number and raise BCHR high enough. Once upon a time, there was a guy named Dostoevsky who wrote the classic story about the Great Inquisitor in his book "The Brothers Karamazov".
You probably know the story: Jesus came back and the inquisition immediately locked him up. In the ensuing conversation between the great inquisitor and Jesus, the inquisitor explains how people don't want the freedom and responsibility, they want silly rituals and somebody else to do their thinking. Eventually, the story goes, Jesus learned the error of his ways and returned back to where he came from. Exactly the same thing can be observed with BCHR: people do want a single number which will tell them that they're right. It's a religious experience, so much better then thinking. Therefore, method "C" has never died.

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Mladen Gogala
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