Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

On 25 May 1999 06:49:07 GMT, sweh_at_mpn.com (Stephen Harris) wrote:

>So change your shell to ksh which comes with solaris, and you end up with
>a shell that is 100 times superior to bash. "set -o vi" or "set -o emacs"
>to enable the appropriate history editing keyset. It may take you some
>time to get into the habit of "r cmd" instead of "!cmd" but it won't take
>too long.

This wasn't meant as Solaris bashing in any way, it's a good OS, every bit as competent as Linux, with more high-end software and superior hardware. (albeit a little overpriced) I have very little milage on Solaris (which will soon change, as HQ wants us to go Solaris / Sybase), so it's merely a first impression. I can hardly wait to get the 2600 mailboxes of our P200 and onto an enterprise 250, and get the server load back under 1!

Actualy, the Sun guy that delivered and demonstrated our first Enterprise 250 saw we were a Linux shop and asked us why we didn't just install linux/sparc!

>"perl" is the only real requirement :-)
Don't get me started on PERL, I'm a TCL hacker ;-)

Cheers,

Bas. Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 14:47:32 CDT