Re: Oracle Standard Edition & RAC

On 1/4/07, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:
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>
> There are an awful lot of systems out there that have time to do batch
> stuff (like stats etc) overnight, that would arguably do index creation out
> of hours as well and don't do 300M worth of data transfer/redo generation in
> a 10 minute window of normal use, let alone per second. A rather surprising
> number of these people believe they need/have been sold/want to imagine that
> they are large enough to need EE and not a 'Workgroup' product. I disagree
> with them:)
>
> …I'm with you…so if SE fits 200-500 users and such systems don't need
> PQO—hence we label it "Workgroup", why Oracle at all? I'm not being
> "typically ascerbic Kevin" here. I don't know how app development on SE
> compares to, say SQL Server and what the portfolio of apps looks like with
> Oracle for workgroups over other databases. Can someome tell me why Oracle
> at all at such a low scale?
>

1. backup/restore/recovery is rock solid.
2. if/when time comes to throw money at the problem in terms of bigger box, more CPUs, EE, partitioning, etc ... no re-write of the application is required.
3. because the CFO likes it
4. in 10g, they don't need a dba.

ok, I'll stop there.

Paul

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