Re: Running Oracle and SQL Server on the same box

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> On 1/11/06, *Paul Drake*
> wrote:
>
> or a 7th grade science class "if a closed room has a refridgerator
> running with the door left open, will the room temperature
> increase, decrease or stay the same".
>
> In both cases, the power company wins and the (system entropy)
> room temperature increases.
>
>
> In the interests of science I should add that this is not in fact
> theory. We ourselves performed this experimentally with some servers,
> an (almost) closed room and a portable aircon unit that didn't in fact
> vent hot air outside the room as we had been led to believe, but
> rather just piped it into a sealed ceiling space within the room.:(
> It was oracle6 on SCO though so probably a mercy killing.
>
> [...]

Ooh. Oracle on SCO. That (shudder) brings back some memories... Or more accurately, recurring nightmares. Did you ever have to install it from floppy disks? (Oracle7 for SCO was about 150 floppies, as I recall...)

I just *love* listening to people whine about the imperfections of recent versions of OUI... ;-) Received on Thu Jan 12 2006 - 07:05:43 CST