Context depends on where you are speaking from..... Certain things you say in the Northern US will get a laugh. Same things here in the Eastern mountains will get you shot. And the same things here in the South will get you hanged and your family hunted down so your line stops procreating...... -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nuno Souto Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:40 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ASM or not to ASM Storey, Robert (DCSO) wrote,on my timestamp of 12/07/2011 2:30 AM: > Going through a 11gR2 new features class. First half day is all about > ASM and installing grid infrastructure for a standalone structure, My question is why would I, on my single server with a single instance, using a SAN for my storage, bother with ASM? Why do all of this overhead just for a single instance? > Single server, Windows, going to 11g without any prior patching knowledge for that release? In your situation, I'd say you'd have to have rocks in your head to go with ASM... Regardless of anyone calling you a "dinossaur". Before I get abused: I CLEARLY AND EXPLICITLY said "in your situation". There is such a thing as CONTEXT in the English language! -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l