Re: onprobe,patrol

On 9 Dec 98, at 19:41, Edward Rosenthal wrote: > If you were to compare onprobe/dbcockpit to some other tools (say > patrol, megamon(?)) to monitor the database > what would you say? If you were a manager of an exploding growth > business, > with incoming marts and oltp environments, would you want one uniform tool > to monitor the thing, or would you want the dba's to flexibly choose > ad-hoc their tools and let them go about their business? how about both? I'd say, let your DBAs do your job. However, it must be borne in mind that Informix has a long history of developing something promising (in the tools category) and then dropping it, just when it starts to get good. :-/ -- Ciao, Billy -- If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. --