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not a DB guy so excuse my ignorance but at that price per core wouldn't it be more cost effective to hire a few more admins and buy more cores and use something
by smegger001 6y ago
not a DB guy so excuse my ignorance but at that price per core wouldn't it be more cost effective to hire a few more admins and buy more cores and use something like postgress or MariaDB?
- ajross 6y agoBecause to non-technical businesses hiring competent database architects is a lot more expensive than buying an Oracle support contract.
- rblatz 6y agoThese are likely systems originally built when the database was the application. So everything in stored procedures and shared across hundreds of individual jobs/apps/reports.
- chasil 6y agoMy Oracle Enterprise databases were installed in the late 90s, and lots of systems that I support have grown around them. I've raised the question of the Enterprise DB version of Postgres (because of the PL/SQL emulation, which would certainly be needed). Even this change would be a large engineering effort.