Re: Advantages of Oracle on Windows over Unix

gazzag wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
> > While I agree with 95% of what you wrote.
> >
> > If that super Windows admin exists out there ... the one that can make
> > Windows performance equivalent to that of *NIX ... he or she sure hasn't
> > worked anywhere I've ever visited.
> > --
> > Daniel A. Morgan
> > University of Washington
> > damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> > (replace x with u to respond)
> > Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> > www.psoug.org
>
> I think this is the problems with GUI's. They don't encourage people
> to read (and understand!) documentation. Most Windows admins that I
> have encountered belong to the
> "point-and-click-until-it-does-what-you-want" school. This explains
> why they find it so hard to document what they've done; ultimately,
> they're not entirely sure.

You've never heard of "printkey.exe"?
(ducking, running and laughing)

I had to document the 10g R1 db server install on a RHEL box with screenshots of the gui interface running on a Cygwin X Server on my Win XP laptop.

Have fun with that one.

-bdbafh

> I'm not against GUI's, incidentally, I just believe that one should
> learn the command-line stuff first. This means that you understand
> what is going on beneath the bonnet ("hood", in America ;)) and you can
> still do your job if, for some reason, the GUI is unavailable.
Received on Thu Jan 18 2007 - 13:23:06 CST