To ExaData or not to ExaData

that is the question. Several years ago ExaData platform came along. When should you go for that platform?

I do not really know...in the beginning of the ExaData product release it was stated that it was aimed at Business Intelligence [BI] applications and not OnLine Transaction Processing [OLTP] applications. Now when Cloud computing is more and more not just a buzz word but a reality things might have changed. They have changed, the new applicances are aimed at OLTP. Which is a natural step in the ExaData product line.

However...there are troubles for the non database guys...

There are of course implications on applications. Some tips over here. But there could be more. And then Tom Kyte is not addressing the DataBase Administrators [DBA] but the developers of the applications. The transition - yes transition not migration :-) - to ExaData from a traditional Oracle DataBase solution have implications on the application.

That is not necessarliy the primary focus for the DBAs, they see the advantages from their point of view in disk space mangagement and such things that DBAs should and are caring for.

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Project, time estimates, lead time and newbies

I had a project today. To put together three BILLY 40cm wide book shelfs.

Interesting, since it was some time I did that. The time to put the first one together was
one hour or so. Why?

Because it was a long time I did it, they changed the mounting method (new kind of screws)
and I was unsure where my tools were.

The two following shelfs did go well. But, as always, when you think that you know something you are starting to make mistakes. Not hard mistakes, but mistakes. In my case one visible, but luckily it will be facing a wall or another BILLY. So, no harm done.

The other mistake was during the mounting of the shelf. Or the integration test you could say :-)

So...the bearing on IT projects is obvious, at least to me. On FACEBOOK a friend of mine who often runs projects wrote after the first one "so, the other two are ready now?". Of course...he is a project manager...what can he write? :-)