Re: Oracle on Windows

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 11 Aug 2006 14:01:17 -0700
Message-ID: <1155330077.030060.47670@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

DA Morgan wrote:
> Preston wrote:
>
> > If you're using DBCA to uninstall Oracle then I'm not surprised ;-)
>
> I don't but I believe the OP did.
>
> > 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.
>
> It doesn't and the blame lies squarely at the feet of both companies.
> The registry is as dumb as a bag of hammers. Do you see equivalent
> nonsense in Linux? Solaris? AIX? OSX? HP/UX? VMS? MVS? OS290? But don't
> worry. Give Microsoft another ten years and they'll reinvent Unix and
> claim credit for doing so.

Rotate arrow of time 180 and multiply by 2.5: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/xenix_microsoft_shortlived_love_affair_with_unix.shtml

SQL> select table_name from dba_tables where table_name like '%REGISTR%'; TABLE_NAME

REGISTRY$ SQL> desc REGISTRY$

 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- --------
----------------------------
 CID                                       NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
 CNAME                                              VARCHAR2(255)
 SCHEMA#                                   NOT NULL NUMBER
 INVOKER#                                  NOT NULL NUMBER
 VERSION                                            VARCHAR2(30)
 STATUS                                    NOT NULL NUMBER
 FLAGS                                     NOT NULL NUMBER
 MODIFIED                                           DATE
 PID                                                VARCHAR2(30)
 BANNER                                             VARCHAR2(80)
 VPROC                                              VARCHAR2(61)
 DATE_INVALID                                       DATE
 DATE_VALID                                         DATE
 DATE_LOADING                                       DATE
 DATE_LOADED                                        DATE
 DATE_UPGRADING                                     DATE
 DATE_UPGRADED                                      DATE
 DATE_DOWNGRADING                                   DATE
 DATE_DOWNGRADED                                    DATE
 DATE_REMOVING                                      DATE
 DATE_REMOVED                                       DATE

>
> > 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.

See metalink Note:231495.1and be glad you said "usually."

>
> <RANT>
> Bad apps and bad drivers when Microsoft intentionally conceals the APIs
> they use? Why is that anyone else's fault. The EU certainly seems to
> agree. Windows is a bloated bag of garbage that provides essentially
> no functionality that wasn't invented elsewhere and implemented first
> in another os with the possible exception of new and creative ways to
> implant viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, and rootkits. An OS that
> can't be stripped of solitaire is not an operating system it is a
> monopoly.
> </RANT>

You go girrl!

echo "buh-bye" > %SystemRoot%\System32\sol.exe

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