Re: RAW or COOKED?

From: boo <boo_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:39:12 -0800
Message-ID: <3890E530.4F93B25B@yahoo.com>

You are right, it is typically discouraged. It is not really necessary in most cases, other than with some aspects of OPS. In my experience, most prefer cooked, as it's easier to manage and much easier in terms of backup and recovery. Just my .02 :-)

"Gregory P. Schin" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have Informix experience but no Oracle. Recently I setup an Oracle
> database. I was going to set it up using raw (character) devices (on
> Solaris) but was confused to find in the documentation that it seemed to
> be discouraged - so I used cooked.
>
> Do most Oracle DBA's use raw or cooked?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Greg Schin
Received on Thu Jan 27 2000 - 18:39:12 CST