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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: testenvironment aix or Linux
On 12/08/05, Bjoern Doerr Jensen <B.D.Jensen_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi!
> "That is illegal" - serious, no joke?
> What is "18th ammendment"?
I'm reasonably sure it was a joke but (assuming we're talking about Ammendments to the US constitution):
(1919)
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.
Fortunately it was repealed by the 21st ammendment.
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> I only think about testing database-stuff,
> but it would be nice if shell-scripts work similar.
Test environments should always mirror production as closely as possible, even if you're only testing 'database-stuff'. It could be something will work fine on one OS and patch version but work not so fine (or not work at all) on a different OS or even different patch level of the same OS.
Even if 99.99% of things work the same on different environments, would you gamble your career on nothing you're testing falling into the 0.01%?
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> If I can choose an Linux for production, which flavour is to prefer?
I like SuSE Linux Enterprise Server but if you're using Liniux then anything the version of Oracle is certified for should be OK. In my experience the problem you tend to run into is different versions of crucial libraries in different distros and versions of distros. RedHat, in particular, were known for including alpha library code in their free/retail versions. the supported server product tends to lag the free/desktop product but at least it is tested and certified.
Stephen
-- It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Aug 12 2005 - 04:49:00 CDT
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