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Remote Diagnostics What is it? Quite simply - it’s a health screening for your database! Due to the explosive
growth in Oracle-backed websites and the limited supply of experienced Oracle
designers and DBAs, many popular websites are beginning to strain under increased
traffic. Oracle is widely acknowledged
as the best database to support ecommerce websites. However, the very features that make it so powerful and flexible
also make it extremely challenging to manage in large, complex, or
high-performance systems. Because of
the tremendous demand for performance optimization for Oracle-backed websites,
Rare & Dear http://www.rare-dear.com
has developed a Remote Diagnostics service. This service combines many
years of in-depth Oracle database expertise (our CTO was one of the three
original developers of the Oracle kernel) into a simple, inexpensive
package. We use this as the first step
in any Performance Optimization engagement; however, it can also stand on its
own as a valuable “Second Opinion” on the health of the database behind your
website. We will monitor your
Oracle-backed website for a 24-hour period, identify the most likely
bottlenecks to optimum performance, and recommend possible corrective
action. Below we explain our approach,
what you get, and limitations on its use. The Rare & Dear
Remote Diagnostic Approach:
We provide you with a
report that includes:
Limitations: While we believe that
the results of our Remote Diagnostics service will be extremely valuable to you in diagnosing or preventing
performance problems with your Oracle-backed website (or intranet), we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to detect all types of problems. First, not all aspects of your system are
investigated. We take a look at only
your Oracle database server, your Oracle database, and your website response
time. We address system performance
only and do not cover security or backup and recovery. We do not examine your web server(s) if they
are separate from the database server(s).
We take measurements of the indicators that, in our experience,
are most likely to cause problems. For the purposes of
this Remote Diagnosis, a specific 24-hour time period is monitored. You should choose a time when your system is
likely to experience the worst performance.
If this time period does not include periods of peak traffic, then we
have no way of knowing how your system responds to such a situation. Also, while you may make extrapolations from the measurements we provide, we are not in a position to do this for you. If you wish to know, for example, how your system will perform under twice the peak load, we can provide a more complete analysis. Though we can identify many problems through the Remote Diagnostics service, some problems may be more complex than we can handle in such a limited effort. In that case, we are happy to provide more in-depth investigation by one or more members of our Performance team. © Rare & Dear, Inc. 2002 |
