Re: HELP - Oracle Admin on NT vs UNIX ??

buy a copy of mkstoolkit, it make nt livable. it gives you unix tools and a kshell, ahhhhh.

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Richard A Papaj wrote:
> >
> > I have a background as an Oracle DBA in a UNIX (Solaris) environment. I
> > have no experience with Oracle on NT but soon may have an instance on NT to
> > support. Just a few questions:
> >
> > How different is Oracle db administration on NT versus UNIX? (e.g. what is
> > typically used in NT as the equivalent of shell scripting in UNIX, etc.)
> >
> > In our environment, we have UNIX sys admins. But if we bring in NT, I may
> > be doing some or all of the sys administration. What's the typical level of
> > effort required for learning & maintaining NT sys administration?
> >
> > How would you rate the reliability & performance of NT as a platform for
> > Oracle?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any input.
> > -Rick Papaj
>
> HI
> the Oracle bits are pretty much the same (except file paths names
> e:\blahz\orafile.dbf!).
>
> If you haven't any good NT skills in house you'll need them. Setting up
> NT and maintaining it is just a skill as it is for Unix - sure any
> monkey can use the GUI, but actually doing things properly is a missing
> element in many NT shop. The PHB sees the GUI and decides you don't need
> training/experience to admin the boxes....
>
> for scripts you can still use perl....
>
> As for reliability, well theres a reason why Oracle have a specific fail
> safe product for NT! If you need reliability stick with Unix, its far
> more stable...
>
> could start the O/S war but this link says it
> all...http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/
>
>
> martin
>
Received on Fri Feb 04 2000 - 13:40:07 CST