You want to migrate to 64 bit for several reasons: a) That's in, so you'll be the coolest guy in the pub. b) You can have a very large SGA, which will dramatically improve BCHR (Buffer Cache Hit Ratio), which will, in turn, make all your queries run blindingly fast, according to old oracle white papers (VLDB option), but not according to anybody else. c) You'll be able to waste money on something seemingly useful and refrain from increasing the training budget or DR budget, so your DBA will continue to backup your TB database onto a whole lot of 4mm DAT tapes. Not to mention that without training your cheap developers from Elbonia will write very interesting queries that your DBA will have to tune. That will keep him/her busy and keep his/her mind away from dice.com. d) Windoze 2003 will be able to run in 64-bit mode, which will give you a chance to be the first one to experience 64-bit virus/worm/trojan.
I believe I listed quite a few very compelling reasons to migrate to 64 bits. If you are still unconvinced, please contact Mr. Scott Adams who will, I'm quite sure of that, have a comment about that quite soon. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- Daniel Fink Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >From a technical and business perspective, what are the reasons to migrate from 32-bit to 64-bit Oracle? Are there known bugs/problems with one version that are not present in the other? Daniel Fink Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Wang Trading LLC and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mladen Gogala INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
