Re: Oracle on Windows

DA Morgan wrote:

> Preston wrote:
>
> > > > Here's a suggestion - why don't you try reading the manuals for
> > > > a change? I suggest you start with the 2-Day DBA guide, where
> > > > it says very plainly that all related Windows services will be
> > > > deleted when you delete a database using the DBCA
>
> > > Perhaps because from actual hands-on experience with Oracle on
> > > Windows he knows that information is not correct.
> >
> > He knows wrong then - that information is correct.
>
> Not from my experience. There are more than a handful of times I've
> used DBCA to uninstall Oracle on Windows ... and then had to manually
> clean up the remaining mess.

If you're using DBCA to uninstall Oracle then I'm not surprised ;-)

Seriously though it does a good job of removing the instance service, & if it didn't, the blame lies squarely at the door of Oracle, not Microsoft. I'm no Microsoft evangelist, & have been purely an Oracle bod for the last 9 years, but I do get a bit sick of Windows being blamed for things that are usually the result of bad applications & especially bad drivers.

I literally cannot remember the last time a Windows box I setup crashed or locked up. Many, many years ago. Even back in the bad old days of NT/98, the vast majority if not all problems were a direct result of poorly written 3rd party drivers.

Add in the highly amusing (not) word-plays like 'Winblows', which weren't even funny 15 years ago when the teenage script-kiddies were using them, & it all starts to look a bit pathetic. All imho of course.

> > But you're implying
> > the information in the Oracle manuals can't be relied on.
>
> Implying? Nonsense! I'm stating it to be a fact. I also don't rely on
> books pubished by Tom Kyte, Jonathan Lewis, or anyone else. Heck I
> don't even trust things I've written a day later.
>
> Which does not mean to suggest that they are not valuable resources
> that are correct 99% of the time. But rather to state that one should
> always verify on their system, with their hardware, os, version, etc.
> it is correct.

Agree 100%. I recently wasted a lot of time running round in circles trying to install Apex on XP64. The documentation was so wrong it didn't even get the location of the installer right.

-- 
Preston.