Ah yes, Marketing speak :-)

The "g" is 10g is supposed to mean "Grid", which is really just a fancy new name for "RAC". I guess Larry Ellison went to a conference where he heard that "Grid" was the new buzzword, so presto - 10g came into existance.

10g Grid Control is the wonderful new name for Enterprise Manager. It is basically a framework for managing the suite of Oracle Products. The first release was pretty basic, but was also light yars ahead of the "old" Eneterprise Manager. We use Em Grid Control for our environment. 10g Grid Control Release 2 takes the management console to the next level and starts to deal with Service Level Management and Reporting, as well as root cause analysis for errors (rather than just lots of flashing alerts, it shows which one actually caused the others to start flashing!)

As far as grid computing itself goes, the new Grid Control makes it easier to deploy new nodes into the "grid", and I think this is where the main improvements are. Certainly the new framework is the way of the future (love it or hate it), but when you have 50 servers anf 150 databases, it is a god send.

Regards,

Paul

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On 25/11/2005 at 10:08 AM Newbie-dba wrote:

Hi all,
When people say 10gGrid, what are they really talking about? Is that just
another name or new name for Oracle Enterprise Manager on Oracle10g, is the
database itself a grid, or at the end of the day, is it just a name in
itself?
Can you really see how the grid itself is working or whether you are
benefitting from it in one way or another?




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