RE: Remote DBA

From: Chris Berry <compjma_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:08:44 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00578D51.20030402150844@fatcity.com>

>From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
>Ramesh
> My assumption was that you were considering hiring a remote DBA
>service.
>If you are talking about managing your own server remotely, that is a
>different issue.
> For that, the first question is whether the platform of your server is
>Unix or Windows. For Unix, pretty much everything is remote anyway. I
>rarely
>need physical access to the server. It matters little whether the server is
>in the next room or on the other side of the world.
> Now, if you are on a Windows platform, it matters which Windows version
>(NT vs. 2000). I have little experience with remotely managing Oracle on a
>Windows platform, but I'm sure someone on the list does it.

I do both platforms, my recommendation is OpenSSH + VNC, they work great, they're free, and they're available for both platforms.

Chris Berry
compjma_at_hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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