Re: New Oracle Questions

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Alex

David Coburn <dcoburn_at_foxinternet.net> wrote in message news:37e0e519_at_news2.foxinternet.net...
> Hi. We are new to Oracle, coming from an extensive Informix background,
and
> are about to start on our first Oracle install. The platform is an HP
9000
> N series, EMC disk array, and HPUX 11.0, with Oracle 8.0.n (I forget).
Per
> the recomendation of a vendor we are going with the Oracle Expert install,
> wherein they will be dialing in and installing remotely. Apparantly the
> installation is to tough for mere mortals to accomplish.

Not really - but some configurations can be difficult. I take it this is a development system (initially) so you have room for mistakes - and its well worth it for the experience

>
> A couple of questions keep poping up in my mind. First, is it really
worth
> the 2K for them to install?

Over a modem ?? (is that $?)

  We thought somebody from Oracle would be coming
> in, spending the day, and helping us get our feet wet with admin issues.
> Second, what is the problem with raw partitions? With Informix, it is the
> recomended way to fly; with Oracle they say it is too hard to adminster,

Depends on how good your UNIX admin / DBAs are Personal preferance seems to be very strong in this area - personally I like to 'see' the files I am dealing with
but OTOH as long as you are careful about maintaining a list of devices in use, then you should have no problems. We use then extensively here and its not too much pain.

> provides minimal speed improvements,

depends on what the application is doing

>and is (in general) to be avoided.
> They sent a white paper (that seemed rather dated) that went over some
> configuration things, but it really raised more questions than it
answered.
>
> That's it for now. If you could, can you cc my work if you reply? The
> address is dcoburn_at_worldvision.org.
>
> Thanks!
>
> David
>
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 16 1999 - 09:11:12 CDT