Re: Oracle and Donald Rumsfeld

My error,

Don's email about this forum came at the end of a sequence of email messages about the Rumsfeld article - so I assumed it was a thread on the same topic. However the topic is titled:

     Do single-user scripts "prove" Oracle Performance?,

but the first item on the list is largely about

    Empirical DBAs vs. Research DBAs;
then ends with the question:

    So, do SQL*Plus scripts accurately reflect real-world     Oracle behaviour, or do you need full-blown multi-user     benchmarks?

It may be a little hard to follow which of the three implied discussions you are supposed to follow. But I liked Mike Ault's item (following the Empirical/Research thread) that points out that research starts with empiricism (i.e. you look at what's happening, and make a guess at a theory to explain it - then comes the research to check if your theory is correct)

I won't be replying to the thread, as it requires me to create an account - and I just don't bother with sites that require a user/password set. (OTN being the only exception).

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> The article has generated a discussion elsewhere:

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>    http://dba.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1396

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> Feel free to comment.

> I'll be going to have a look in a couple of hours

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> Regards

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> Jonathan Lewis

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> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html

> The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ

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> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html

> Public Appearances - schedule updated March 9th 2005

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