Consider this scenario:

• your website shopping cart uses Oracle because it hooks into Oracle Financials.
• your cluster of web servers get their data from replicated MySQL instances, because you can scale this up easily and with minimal cost.
• You replicate your inventory numbers from Oracle to the MySQL instances.

This is in fact a typical use case for Golden Gate, which has just been acquired by Oracle.

http://www.goldengate.com/

The best in North America, and therefore the world!
The spiciest pizza I ever had: Marco Polo's Pizza in ChengDu, Sichuan, China.
You know those super-hot burning sichuan peppers? That what they use for their sauce base!

Here's an interesting note on NPR relating to a private company that is aggregating the same data.

http://recovery.com/

"When Congress approved the stimulus bill, it made a point of setting up a Web site called Recovery.gov to allow citizens to track all those billions in spending. But if you've gone looking for it, you might have stumbled across another, very similarly named site, Recovery.com.

The dot-com version is not run by the government, but it also tracks the stimulus -- and much of its information is more up to date. In fact, it has spending information that the government won't have until October, and its data provide a sneak peak into how the stimulus spending is going.

The site is run by Onvia, a Seattle company that collects and sells data on government procurement. Whatever the layer of government -- whether state, county, school district or local water board -- Onvia wants to know what's being purchased."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112893572&ps=cprs

if you don't know a damned thing about physics, don't mod up posts full of word-salad wharrgarbl like "intra-molecular impedance."

Oh great, another intra-molecular impedance denier!

I joined a startup, and there wasn't enough desk space for me and one other guy.

So we had our terminals set up in the conference room. Every time there was a meeting, we would go sit at the desk of somebody who was in the meeting and use their terminal.

Fortunately they got their second round of funding and we got our own desks after a month or so!

but I'd be intrigued to find out what needs Oracle answers that PostgreSQL can't!

I like PostgreSQL a lot, but RAC (real application clustering) lets us scale our Oracle database nicely by adding boxes to the existing cluster.

5k 355 113 /p

and why doesn't it happen to my car???

Are you willing to pay higher taxes to offer streaming in several formats?

Dude, how much does that cost? They're paying $150 million for the thing!

Faraday cages work great. I put my wifi base station in one and haven't been troubled by it since!