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>From: Martin Fuerderer <MARTINFU@de.ibm.com>
>informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 18.03.2007 01:43:34:
>
> > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.442.1174149655.10648.informix-list@iiug.org...
> >
> > >> I don't disagree with you. And I'm talking myself out of a job to a
> > certain extent. But I'm constantly amazed at the number of sites I
>attend
> > that still run with 200 buffers ...
> >

Lets not get in to the debate of making the DBA redundant. He/She will never
be redundant. Just that their jobs will change from baby sitter to Data
Architect. (More challenging and a good thing.)

Assuming that this is after the server is up and running and that its
performing well with those SANS etc ... ;-)

The point of automating some of the tuning process isn't going to make the
DBA redundant, but that a less trained person in a smaller shop could get
the machine up and running out of the box and actually get decent
performance.

Suppose IBM IM Lab Services were to offer a service to spend a week doing an
install, and tuning of the engine. (This also includes mentoring and some
skills transition time) In the US, that would be approximately 10K plus
reasonable T&L.

To a large client like Harry E Butts (yes, thats what HEB stands for, I kid
you not!) 10K is nothing.
But to an SMB client, 10K could be a large chunk of their IT budget.

And the way IBM appears to be positioning IDS, that's your target audience.
If you're going on record that IDS is a "lights out" minimal admin database,
then you're going to also want the install process to be as simple as it can
be.

And Martin, to your earlier point about wanting full control...
Sun Micro didn't have an admin tool like HP or IBM (SAM or SMIT).
Made my life as a sysadmin a lot easier, especially when I had to build the
machines after hours. ;-)

And that's the key point. By having a "smart" system that can create a basic
and fairly accurate system out of the box, doesn't preclude someone like you
from going in and tweaking the system install process. Or modifying the
onconfig parameters manually.

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