Re: A question for anyone using BMC's SQL-Backtrack

I agree, but I would not want to be in the OP's situation where management adopts BMC's Backtrack as the corporate backup and recovery solution.

RMAN gets away with running online backups without tablespaces being in BEGIN BACKUP mode, but it is supported by Oracle directly. Why go with a third party, unsupported backup tool? What happens when BMC's releases are behind the latest Oracle RDBMS release? What happens when you attempt to restore and end up with inconsistent datafiles that are logically corrupt and don't respond to media recovery?

Restore your secondary backup? What's the point then.

I'm assuming that Backtrack is a log sniffer, just like Logminer. If it is, it probably has its place in many DBA's bag of tricks, but is it robust enough to reliably protect your data?

-Kevin

"Geomancer" <pharfromhome_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cf90fb89.0304200231.4899ef15_at_posting.google.com...
> > Sounds like some sales rep at BMC has done his/her job very well.
>
> While BMC is as guilty of puffery as any other vendor, the existence
> of their products is enough proof of some value.
>
> Let's think about it. SQL Backtrack competes with the "free" Oracle9i
> Logminer. If there wasn't some "meat" to SQL Backtrack, nobody would
> buy it, and everybody would use the free Oracle solution.
>
> The same is true of the BMC DB-Xray product. It competes with the
> Oracle's Performance Pack.
>
> It does not make sense to me that these products would exist if there
> were not some customer base for them.
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 09:23:53 CDT