That is very helpful. The original post did not give us a good idea of what
your needs were. Actually, you can do raw devices on NT, but I have not
heard of any backup software that can deal with them. (sort of you can do
something, but it is a bad idea to do it.) I would try Oracle's web site.
I believe that they have white papers on that. Give Oracle a call.
Good luck.
Jim
Richard Markle wrote in message <36682EB7.91D3805F_at_isi.edu>...
> I was asking for pointers to articles to print out and give THEM.
I've
>read the benchmarks that said given identical applications on a terabyte
size
>DB, Oracle/UNIX was able to service roughly 3X as many connections as
>Oracle/NT, I know that NT doesn't scale well for enterprise, there is the
>sheer number of layers that NT apps must go through vs. the micro-kernel
>architecture of UNIX, there is the remote administration problem, and
given
>the fact that Oracle/NT doesn't have a raw partition, it is therefore is
once
>again filtered through NT, thereby placeing more software between you and
your
>data. But these are observations, not printable articles, which is what I
>think will be most convincing.
> For the record this is for a terabyte, multi-media DB. I don't want
butt
>heads, I just was looking for some pointers to articles. If you don't want
to
>help, please, please, don't respond. I don't need the condescension.
Thanks
>to all those who gave helpful pointers. It is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Dale Cook wrote:
>
>> Just playing devil's advocate here... if you personally have no hard
>> facts about why Oracle/NT is a poor solution, why do you think it is
>> a poor choice? Gut feel?
>>
>> ----dale
>>
>> Richard Markle wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi. I am doing a little consulting for a friend and need to
>> > convince his management that Oracle/NT is not the way to go. Can
anyone
>> > point to some white papers or Web pages that can give me some hard
facts
>> > to back me up ( I got the benchmarking article off of the main Oracle
>> > site.)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
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Received on Fri Dec 04 1998 - 13:30:06 CST
