Very true. The last time I visited Finland it was for an Oktober Fest
arranged by the Abase folks, and I ended up drinking 100 grams of vodka
at a time against a very young lady, who, well, out-drank me, to be honest.
They say it's a special piece of DNA that some Finns possess. I believe
it now.
The following day the Finnish guys (including the brilliant Tuomas
Pystynen) took me to a real sauna, where all these stone-faced guys were
sitting outsize in the freezing cold, naked, staring at the frozen lake,
for hours on end. No kidding.
If they claim they can generate these stats in no time, better believe
them. They have typically thought about each word they speak or write
for about 42 hours.
Mogens
Schultz, Charles wrote:
I had to laugh at that one. =)
Reading the abase website, Cassandra sounds like an amazing tool. Although, a few more features than we are interested in, their philosophy sounds... sound. However, I am skeptical of their claim:
"Generating statistics for very large and heavily used tables with Oracle's analyze command can take anything up to several hours depending on the size and usage of the table being analyzed. With Cassandra, those statistics can be calculated within minutes."
How can you do that without sampling? And once you start sampling, you introduce the possibility of error.
Thanks for passing on this link, Mogens. Gives me something to think about.
Thought in passing: If alcohol consumption were directly related to software quality, what does that say about software quality? =) I will purposefully not mention any names.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mogens Nørrgaard [mailto:mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:21 AM
To: oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Schultz, Charles; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Know of any downloadable histogram viewers for Oracle?
Cassandra, perhaps? At least they are nice guys from Finland who can drink way more vodka than me. That in itself must be a quality...
www.abase.fi
Mogens
Dennis Williams wrote:
Charles
Consider cutting and pasting the values into MS Excel and then displaying them in a graph. I haven't done this specifically with histogram values, but I have used this trick with lots of values I wanted to graph.
Dennis Williams
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