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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?
I agree with His Chrisness on this one.
If the avg(NT Admin) > avg(Unix Admin), we'd all be reading this mail on Window's boxes. Er.....what I mean to say is......
<sly grin>
but, in all seriousness....when there is a way to find a *very good* NT admin out of all the Wendy's employees, then NT boxes will be up 4 or 5 nines, easy.
Besides guys, "five nines" means you're down about FIVE MINUTES a year.
Now, how many of the Unix boxes on this list have done that this year? I bet less than one percent.
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:58 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Possible? Yes.
Likely? No.
Most NT system admins suck. Sorry guys, but it is true. It is a technology that has been made available and easily accessable, many people (cooks, waiters, wendy's employees) who are not truely System admins or even computer geeks have found themselves working as system admins and doing fairly well (by their bosses eyes). Now if you feel comfortable with your system admin and your dba, then it is very possible. It is like anything else, care must be taken during adminstration and upgrades must be done with the utmost respect to the system.
The only true way to do 24x7 (which gives you about 8 hours/year downtime) is to do a clustered environment, using fail safe, or having shared drive array in cluster. There are many systems that provide fault tolerance for NT, once cannot hope to obtain 24x7 environment without utter repetativeness from the Oracle db to the high speedline coming into the building.
Depending on budget, some things because acceptable risks.
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I have a treasury application that needs to be up 24 x 7 except for scheduled downtime. Is there any way to guarantee an app will be available 24 x 7 on NT? Is anyone faced with this?
Ron Smith
Database Administration
rlsmith_at_kmg.com
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