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Re: Online database....how?

From: atl.mediaone <rmycroft_at_mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:03:43 GMT
Message-ID: <z1vL5.11883$G95.4027671@typhoon.southeast.rr.com>

Hmmm, so this is a plus only running on Winders? Having right now a position where I'm running several boxes remotely (at least most of the time) that are at the moment running NT - and no I'm not going to hand out the URL so all the hackers can test all those marvelous security 'features' of NT - and I'll tell you point blank I'd like nothing better than to get the h__l off of NT. It is very much a pain in the rear trying to do remote admin activities with it. And God bless those idiots from Redmond for including that stupid registry idea. With Linux or any version of UNIX I've met you tend to have config files - 99% of the time ASCII format - that by God you can edit and then ftp to your server and restart the needed daemon. No need for the magic of reboot every damn time you change something. I've run web sites with a mix of OS'es and the machines that gave us the most grief were the blasted NT boxes. The Linux boxes never, and I mean never, crashed on software errors. And even though I happen to like SQL Server in general, been with it since 4.21, just because it is not available on anything but NT it's going to get the boot. and yes, I do indeed have the authority to make that happen and it will. I'm actually hoping that MS gets broken up precisely so the possibility of SQL Server getting ported to UNIX becomes more likely than hell freezing over.

I won't even begin to get into 'our favorite database, Access' - if that's your top pick then you're no dba.

Rich Mycroft

Larry Linson wrote in message <8tl18b$fjn$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> doug_at_modsoft.com (Doug Dumitru) wrote:
>
> > The only production hosting service in the mvDBMS market that I am
> > aware of is my company (EasyCo). We support five different mvDBMS
> > databases on x86 Linux hardware with datacenters on both coasts. We
> > support mvDBMS applications with user access either via the web or
> > via terminal streams (TELNET) over the internet. All systems are
> > securely hosted and included management of backups and other system
> > monitoring functions.
>
>I'm not sure what "mvDBMS" means, but there are a plethora of host
>sites that support users' database needs, some of them actually running
>NT hosts so we can use our favorite database, Microsoft Access, or our
>favorite server database, MS SQL Server, which no matter how many
>databases you support, don't run under Unix.
>
>--
> L. M. (Larry) Linson
> http://www.ntpcug.org - North Texas PC User Group - Visit and Join
> http://www.ntmsdevsigs.homestead.com - NTPCUG Developer SIGs
> http://homestead.deja.com/user.accdevel - Access examples
>
>
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Received on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 02:03:43 CST

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