Re: RMAN on Windows Server
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:45:38 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c8970912010945s1b84fdc4s7136273ac80ce195_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> I'm working for a VERY large global company, and they still have about 40%
> of their databases on Windows. And this introduces a whole new problem,
> since we can't actually create local users, we use our domain accounts to
> schedule tasks, and as our passwords change, the scheduled tasks become
> invalid. Due to compliance issues, we are still not authorized to create a
> Service Account in order to schedule the tasks... so we started moving away
> from windows task scheduler.
>
> I'd say windows is an OS for desktop computers... not enterprise servers.
> I'd much rather run linux (even RedHat) on any machine that supports
> windows. And have a very robus environment on which to run Oracle... as
> opposed to the Blue-Screen-Maker...
> </rant>
>
I can understand the bias against windows, but your specific issues are
almost entirely unrelated to the operating system and instead related to the
security policy and likely the politics. If you also rotated unix os
passwords on a schedule and schedule using a central scheduler and don't
allow the people doing the scheduling to use appropriately privileged
accounts then you'd also be stuffed. If you are regularly having blue
screens then you likely have bad drivers or hardware. Actually I bet if you
collect the stats your windows db servers haven't been down for a blue
screen for years if at all, it just doesn't generally happen these days on
server hardware.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue Dec 01 2009 - 11:45:38 CST