Hi Sean
Having worked in both environments, there are a couple of things I miss
when working on windows that I can do on unix;
- if you have a lot of installing / patching to do on multiple machines
then on unix you can avoid the necessity of spending a lot of time
watching and waiting on the Oracle installer; perform the install or
patching on one machine, shut everything down and create a unix tar file
of /u01 (where oracle is usu installed on unix) then just untar onto any
target machines (not possible with NT owing to the amount of settings
that go into the registry and the COM setup etc. on unix all bar a
couple of files are in /u01)
- when things are getting tight disk space wise you can export to a unix
pipe with compress / gzip running on the other end (export's dump files
compress/zip nicely)
- as others have said, remote access is far easier with unix (telnet/ssh
or X windows) on Windows you can use Terminal Services remote admin
provided you are running on the Server version (beware the connection
limites in Professional). VNC is another possibility for windows but is
not secure and can eat CPU resource (always a bad thing on a database
server!)
- re: one of the other comments about needing to be 'root' on unix;
this is no different to Windows (Oracle should be installed as
Administrator on Windows Server)
Good luck with whichever you choose
KJP
Sean wrote:
> Does anyone know of whitepaper(s) addressing the advantages of running
> Oracle Server in the Unix environment vs. Windows?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sean Johnson
Received on Wed Jan 08 2003 - 01:38:43 CST
