Re: Can I run SQL Server 7 and Oracle 8i on the same computer?

From: Myron Murff <myron_at_delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 11:36:38 -0800
Message-ID: <385004C6.EEDD796C@delphi.bsd.uchicago.edu>

I would caution you against running a test db environment, of any type, on your production db machine. The inherent instability of the testing process assures that frequent hardware/db-engine restarts are in your future.

Myron

Sir Chive wrote:

> I'm running a copy of SQL Server 7 on NT under fairly light load on a
> decent departmental server .
>
> We probably have 10 to 20 concurrent connections most of the time. The
> box is a dual 450 with 384MB and a 4 disk RAID 10 array.
>
> I would like to run Oracle 8i simultaneously on the same machine for
> developement purposes. The connections to Oracle would be very low, for
> testing purposes only.
>
> Are there any obvious gotchas? Can both services co-exist peacefully? Is
> this a really bad idea or will it likely be OK?
Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 13:36:38 CST