From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Oct 7 07:56:13 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j97Cu3gD007632 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:56:13 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j97CtkvX007541 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:55:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9033A1F5C47; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:54:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32063-06; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:54:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 06CC61F5682; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:54:47 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: RE: *nix vs MS Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 08:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA6502D4408F@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: *nix vs MS thread-index: AcXK1+Mb6xXowS//QfCOaNNHbYiXtQAZbNag From: "Goulet, Dick" To: Cc: "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Oct 2005 12:50:45.0064 (UTC) FILETIME=[BB978480:01C5CB3D] X-archive-position: 26524 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: DGoulet@vicr.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: DGoulet@vicr.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 I like this one better: bart:/ora1:03:uptime 8:59am up 918 days, 19:17, 3 users, load average: 0.34, 0.34, 0.34 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mark Bole Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:40 PM Cc: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail) Subject: Re: *nix vs MS Well, I like this at boot-up time: ;-) "/dev/sdb1 has gone 202 days without being checked, check forced..." -Mark Bole Robyn wrote: > Everyone, > > We have a fairly large, truly mission critical database (Oracle > 9.2.0.6) at a remote site that is currently running on Microsoft. In > the past, others have tried to convince mgmt that the system would be > more reliable on a unix os, but no one has ever been successful in > obtaining a project to make the change. > > To my way of thinking, the strongest case for moving this database to > unix is the track record of this application; it has had far more than > it's share of issues (bad backups, system crashes, corrupt blocks, > hung processes, cpu spikes and so on) even though it already gets more > care and feeding than other databases. (majority of our databases are > *nix) This is one aspect of what will be presented. > > That being said, for those of you who prefer unix, what are your best > arguments for choosing unix for an Oracle database? What are the > drawbacks? We'd like to make sure we uncover all the pros and cons. > > Any input is appreciated, > > Robyn > > -- > Robyn Anderson Sands > email: Robyn.Sands@SciAtl.com > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Mark Bole http://www.bincomputing.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l