Re: Oracle NT vs Oracle UNIX - my 2 cents

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:52:27 -0500, database_admin <dataworks_at_zebra.net> wrote:

>jan wrote:
>
>>
>> In fact, most UNIX programs are about as simple as the corresponding
>> DOS version of the same would be.
>>
>> /jan
>
>Well Said.
> I have been fortunate (?) enough to have set up 3 systems from scratch
>- operating system, executables and dbs on HP-UX and Solaris in the last
>18 months, and have found it far easier to automate
>tasks using UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts along with the oracle
>utilities.
>
>
>As someone who turned his back on Windoze years ago, I cannot offer a
>fair perspective on NT vs UNIX. Surely NT has a batch language
>equivalent of what one used to use with DOS, but I haven't needed it.
>All of my dbs save one are on HP-UX & Solaris. Our newest db is on NT,
>so for now I manage it through the graphical onlines & sql scripts.
>
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>Example - I can think of 3 different ways to create compressed exports
>using named pipes to tape or to another machine on my netwrk with simple
>\(less than 10 lines) shell scripts. Well documented on the 'net as
>well.
>for example: (credit goes to Balaji Bollu for this)
>
>mknod exp_pipe.dmp p
>chmod +rw exp_pipe.dmp
>cat exp_pipe.dmp | compress > my_export_file.dmp.Z &
>exp system/password file=exp_pipe.dmp log=my_exp.log
>
>I am biased towards HP UX because I have used it for years, and have
>been backup UNIX system adminitrator as well as a DBA.
>
>We have Win NT here as well, but I can't "get down to the Iron" so to
>speak without a lot of programming. I had the Windows 95 SDK when it was
>in beta, and the size of the documentation was beyond my patience to
>deal with. So I turned away from the Dark Side, and became a DBA instead
>of a Windows programmer. :=)
>
>Of course, I can't wait to see LINUX & Oracle 8 in action.!!!
The main problem is that NT doesn't scale as well as UNIX. The record of 103,000 transactions per minute wasn't achieved on NT!

NT/SQL Server isn't really a serious contender for the big enterprise systems.

Regards

Clive Received on Sat Oct 03 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT