Robert,

> I'm wondering if anyone who has used these features or suspect they will use
> them in the future has a preference. In some cases, if page count allows,
> I'll do both. In some cases I need to select either/or due to page count
> considerations. In the past, I've been very heavily code oriented and really
> relegated OEM to the background, but now I'm thinking of moving in the other
> direction.

I had the same question when I wrote my chapters, and ended up showing
both. Reviews showed that the readers like this approach. I followed
up the book with a COLLAB paper that went under the hood so I can show
more in-depth stuff. On a practical side, as a working DBA that needs
to manage scores of databases, I *cannot* afford to login to multiple
DB Control (or multiple links from Grid Control) instances to check.
To enable alerts, one needs descriptions/pointers to the right set of
WR views/tables and SQL that can extract this information and
massage/summarize it for you... And I believe that providing this part
via a book is the author's responsibility.... In other words, you need
to cover what Oracle's marketing material and WPs cannot do in their
glossies, and show some of the down-and-dirty that Oracle will NOT
show you via the documentation....

Regards,

John Kanagaraj <><
DB Soft Inc
http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com

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