Comments on: Lab 128 : expert DBA’s secret weapon http://dboptimizer.com/2013/02/17/lab-128-expert-dbas-secret-weapon/ database performance, SQL tuning and data visualizatoin Sat, 03 Mar 2018 05:02:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Kyle Hailey http://dboptimizer.com/2013/02/17/lab-128-expert-dbas-secret-weapon/#comment-15986 Kyle Hailey Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:09:39 +0000 http://dboptimizer.com/?p=2489#comment-15986 Hi Ramesh – feel free to ping me off line for any question on Delphix. I’m at kyle.hailey@delphix.com

]]> By: Ramesh http://dboptimizer.com/2013/02/17/lab-128-expert-dbas-secret-weapon/#comment-15979 Ramesh Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:17:23 +0000 http://dboptimizer.com/?p=2489#comment-15979 Thanks Kyle. We have a meeting scheduled next month with Delphix. Kind of excited to learn more.

]]> By: Kyle Hailey http://dboptimizer.com/2013/02/17/lab-128-expert-dbas-secret-weapon/#comment-15891 Kyle Hailey Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:39:20 +0000 http://dboptimizer.com/?p=2489#comment-15891 @Ramesh: It all comes down to money really. If I had the money I’d buy them all for different reasons. Grid control is the most complete if you have diag pack and tuning pack. With diag pack you get AWR and ASH. With tuning you get SQL monitoring. Grid control is the most expensive and the most complete and also the least reliable and slowest. For that reason I like something like lab 128 because it’s fast, cheap and dependable.
With Oracle you are talking about $5000 per core. With lab128 you are talking about $900 for everything.
For Confio, I’ve never been a user but I know there are shops that use both Confio and OEM for some of the same reasons. Also if I ran databases on VMware I’d definitely want Confio as they correlate performance of the VMs with the databases.

]]> By: Ramesh http://dboptimizer.com/2013/02/17/lab-128-expert-dbas-secret-weapon/#comment-15862 Ramesh Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:37:29 +0000 http://dboptimizer.com/?p=2489#comment-15862 Hi Kyle,
Not to put you on the spot or anything, but if I gave you a choice of tools to monitor databases, what would be your personal preference?

Grid Control with diagnostics and tuning pack licenses
Confio
Lab128

We are trying to decide on a monitoring tool. Confio seems to have the advantage that it can give us an integrated view of the whole stack including the VM layer, but I get the feeling that Oracle will continue to enhance Grid Control, so does it make sense to stick to Grid Control?

Thanks

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