Re: Will Oracle NT knowledge carry over to Solaris version

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:00:37 -0500
Message-ID: <q7D34.23361$Tp.1039595@typ11.nn.bcandid.com>

You should definitely get a head start now. 90% of what you do as a DBA will be the same on NT or on Solaris. My current site has Solaris, NT and Novell servers.

Van

<biscuit_13_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:82mgie$or6$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I am currently a SQL Server DBA, but I have gotten approval to start
> working toward an eventual migragtion to using Oracle probably on the
> Sun Solaris platform. This will not happen for another 6 to 12 months.
>
> We already have NT boxes that I could use, but we don't have any
> Solaris/Unix machines. So I was wondering from a strictly Oracle
> perspective, if I get the development version of Oracle 8 for NT to
> practice/train on, will the Oracle knowledge transfer reasonably well
> when we are ready to start developing with the Sun Solaris version, or
> should I wait until we get a Sun box?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Biscuit
>
>
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Received on Wed Dec 08 1999 - 19:00:37 CST