Re: Any reason not to have logic in the db?
- From: Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:43:24 +0300
>so they advised that the only (!)
>way to fix the performance problems on Oracle was to use SQL Server
instead.
>We switched backends and surprise, it performed beautifully.
the question of SQL Server vs Oracle parsing performance allways puzzled
me.
Why Oracle is so sensitive to libarry latching/mutexing, etc whilst SQL
server seems to be just performing. There are no miracles: either SQL
server is way faster to parse/generate plans (bad to Oracle) or SQL server
skips something (more primitve optimizer for example)
BTW, there is some evidence of Oracle beeing plaqued by SQL pool problems
as soon as it appeared (version 7?)
While version 6(?) just kept performing, including massive literal SQL
produced by eralier versions of Oracle Designer.
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On 12/06/12 15:27, Hans Forbrich wrote:
> ...
> If you want a commodity RDBMS, then chose a commodity RDBMS. If you
> want an Enterprise RDBMS, then force it to yield up all of it's value.
> Oracle has 6 different RDBMS engines (Server, RDB, TimesTen, MySQL,
> InnoDB and Berkeley) and they make it easy to choose, and pay, according
> to your needs. But the reality is that an application rarely switches
> engines once delivered.
I know only of one occasions where a "database agnostic" application
switched backends. It ran on Oracle and was diabolically slow, parsed
like mad, and did everything wrong. The DBA team I worked with at the
time raised numerous service calls with the vendor.
The resulting outcome was that they didn't have any/much Oracle
experience - being a SQL Server shop - so they advised that the only (!) p
way to fix the performance problems on Oracle was to use SQL Server
instead.
We switched backends and surprise, it performed beautifully. The outcome
further enhanced my cynicism about any vendor who claims to have created
a "database agnostic" application - because it is extremely unlikely
that they actually know how to use the features of one database, never
mind all of the others!
> ...
> ... Look at the ADF model, and
> tell me where the Business logic actually ends up (Ans: a tier within in
> the middle tier, and potentially spread across different technologies,
> with interesting complexity challenges).
It will probably all end in tiers! ;-)
> WHERE to put the Business Logic *should be* a response to the business
> requirements, including performance and skill set.
True, but is it not the case that most business logic is down to
constraints of various kinds anyway? Granted not all of it, but most? It
has been in my experience (maybe I need to "get out" more?) but the very
fact that it is something the database does very well (in compiled C)
means nothing to the vast majority of Java developers who always seem to
reinvent the wheel for every application and treat the database as
somewhere to "hibernate" their "objects". :-(
Cheers,
Norm.
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