Re: wish list
- From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:45:32 -0300
Another nice feature SQLServer has and Oracle doesn't is Online Backups with
the DB in NOARCHIVELOG mode. I know that would make PiTR impossible, but
sometimes having snapshots of the DB is enough.
cheers.
Alan.-
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It also shows how much more we pay in EE for what essentially amounts to a
>> software toggle switch.
>> But what I really like is being able to have a database working in
>> 2000-emulation mode, another in 2005-emulation and another in native 2008,
>> all in the same instance and all sharing the same server. Works wonders
>> when consolidating apps into single servers.
>
>
> Also extremely valuable for customers who want to run a supported database
> and where the software vendor hasn't yet certified against a current
> release.
>
> NB There was of course prep work to make sure the database wasn't using any
> EE only features (but as it was a shrink wrap app I wasn't surprised when it
> wasn't).
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info
>
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