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

I use cygwin from www.cygnus.com. Very nice because I have to do development on NT 4.0 but for a Solaris 2.6 box.

Martin

jcollins_at_sasquatch.com wrote:
>
> 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 11 2000 - 11:37:02 CST