What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
Building out my first Amazon RDS system.
I've been wanting to set up an RDS instance for when I finally get Sendy going on AWS...
Are you going single or multi availability zones? I really like the sound of a database with built-in failover, but I've read that it doesn't always trigger when the primary database fails for some people.
Also wishing they offered MariaDB as one of the options but what can you do.
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@WingCreative said:
Also wishing they offered MariaDB as one of the options but what can you do.
Is there really much benefit? MariaDB support is really bad, so I would not want a MariaDB setup that I was paying for. If I'm supporting it myself, then it is fine. But once I'm going commercial, I would the support coming from Oracle.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@WingCreative said:
Also wishing they offered MariaDB as one of the options but what can you do.
Is there really much benefit? MariaDB support is really bad, so I would not want a MariaDB setup that I was paying for. If I'm supporting it myself, then it is fine. But once I'm going commercial, I would the support coming from Oracle.
Probably not! I only have experience with simple MySQL deployments at the moment, where MariaDB has worked as a drop-in replacement without any issue and some performance gains. Haven't done anything with an Oracle DB myself yet but I have heard it's pretty much the best relational database out there if you're willing to pay for it.
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@WingCreative said:
Probably not! I only have experience with simple MySQL deployments at the moment, where MariaDB has worked as a drop-in replacement without any issue and some performance gains. Haven't done anything with an Oracle DB myself yet but I have heard it's pretty much the best relational database out there if you're willing to pay for it.
Oracle DB is nothing special. If I am looking for a high end RDBMS, I would use PostgreSQL nearly always and Sybase or MS SQL Server for niche cases. Oracle DB I would only consider in cases where nothing else was offered as a compatibility option AND if PostgreSQL's Oracle drop in compatibility for some reason failed.
MySQL is Oracle's secondary database product and Berkeley DB their tertiary. If you have commercial MySQL it is Oracle supporting you. If you use MariaDB it is the little MariaDB group and their support is really bad. I've been stuck using them and they were a total failure - actually did more damage than they solved. And not cheap.
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MySQL / MariaDB I use only when I need something that is only looking for one or the other. If I am on CentOS or whatever and MariaDB is what is included by default, great, I'll use that. I'm not going to the MariaDB group for support, I'm getting the support from Red Hat if I need it. But if I am getting a big, commercial MySQL / MariaDB deployment I want the expertise and reliability of Oracle's support staff. They are worth the money.
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That's also why I often recommend that if people are going to pay for a UNIX OS that Solaris is an awesome choice, not only because the OS is so good, but because Oracle's support of it is affordable and excellent.
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Thinking about heading out onto the streets of San Francisco to work my way back to San Bruno.
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The photo studio made a video during the shoot for my daughter's 七五三 photos.
Would have given them an A+ rating for this until the very end when they spelled her name wrong.
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Still trying to get my brain in gear for the day.
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Good morning all.
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G'morning!
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Good morning,.. Survived a triple round of severe storms...I about to search for the data from the last 24 hours, rain, wind, lightning strikes. power outages - it was pretty active.
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@g.jacobse Hope you didn't lose any equipment!
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Thanks - as of yet, nothing has been noted. I powered down, a bit of it prior,.. didn't disconnect anything so that was a minus. But we faired good.
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We've got one of those users who likes to call 3-4 times a day saying the internet is slow. When it's checked it's not. And she doesn't really need the internet for her job either.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
We've got one of those users who likes to call 3-4 times a day saying the internet is slow. When it's checked it's not. And she doesn't really need the internet for her job either.
Sounds like a case of needing to maybe enact one of the following:
- Review her IE / FF / Chrome history
- Sniffer her computer
- Install VNC or similar and monitor there actions in real time
- Remove her computer for a 'network driver issue' and perform some investigation
- Remove her computer and wipe it
I love users like that... generally when I'm done, they don't call back.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
We've got one of those users who likes to call 3-4 times a day saying the internet is slow.
Doesn't everyone have one of these users
That and callers who say "Is there a problem with the network because my computer is really slow today". There is never a "problem with the network" but this seems to be thing everyone mentions. It's not helped when people have a problem with a 3rd party system and the vendor says to them "can you check with the IT department and see if the network is ok". Or even "can you get the IT department to check the cables". The cables? WTF! Sort your crappy software before complaining about cables!
Or sometime someone will say "it must be the network because Sue said her computer was slow as well" and I have to explain that Sue is complaining about the speed of processing sales invoice posting batches on our ERP system whereas you are talking about running a cat video in your Facebook feed. Despite what you might think, the two are not related!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
We've got one of those users who likes to call 3-4 times a day saying the internet is slow.
Doesn't everyone have one of these users
That and callers who say "Is there a problem with the network because my computer is really slow today". There is never a "problem with the network" but this seems to be thing everyone mentions. It's not helped when people have a problem with a 3rd party system and the vendor says to them "can you check with the IT department and see if the network is ok". Or even "can you get the IT department to check the cables". The cables? WTF! Sort your crappy software before complaining about cables!
I have a vendor that does this all the time... "It must be something with the network." The last time they said we were getting odd database corruptions... turned out to be an error in the software that wasn't writing to the database correctly. The time before that they had some bizarre timeout issues on their client that was fixed with a software patch. Probably the network though.
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@coliver said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
We've got one of those users who likes to call 3-4 times a day saying the internet is slow.
Doesn't everyone have one of these users
That and callers who say "Is there a problem with the network because my computer is really slow today". There is never a "problem with the network" but this seems to be thing everyone mentions. It's not helped when people have a problem with a 3rd party system and the vendor says to them "can you check with the IT department and see if the network is ok". Or even "can you get the IT department to check the cables". The cables? WTF! Sort your crappy software before complaining about cables!
I have a vendor that does this all the time... "It must be something with the network." The last time they said we were getting odd database corruptions... turned out to be an error in the software that wasn't writing to the database correctly. The time before that they had some bizarre timeout issues on their client that was fixed with a software patch. Probably the network though.
Just like it was the shutoff valve on the buffer panel
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@coliver said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
We've got one of those users who likes to call 3-4 times a day saying the internet is slow.
Doesn't everyone have one of these users
That and callers who say "Is there a problem with the network because my computer is really slow today". There is never a "problem with the network" but this seems to be thing everyone mentions. It's not helped when people have a problem with a 3rd party system and the vendor says to them "can you check with the IT department and see if the network is ok". Or even "can you get the IT department to check the cables". The cables? WTF! Sort your crappy software before complaining about cables!
I have a vendor that does this all the time... "It must be something with the network." The last time they said we were getting odd database corruptions... turned out to be an error in the software that wasn't writing to the database correctly. The time before that they had some bizarre timeout issues on their client that was fixed with a software patch. Probably the network though.
My users ask "are you doing something to the server? because ______ doesn't work"...
Ok, 1) which server? there are like a dozen... and 2) i'm tired of telling you that your specific error comes from the poor configuration at the customer's site, I can't fix it.
