Re: Is it a good idea to run Oracle on Intel/NT?

I have found that if
NT is running only one instance of Oracle Oracle on NT is small ie less than 5 GB
it works alright. except for the ocational reboot. about once a month. However I have found Oracle on Unix (Solaris and AIX) is very solid at whatever size the DB is and it can handle many instances. So for my money (and sleep and less hassles) I would stick with Unix.

Pete

Turki Al-Qusaimi wrote:

> Hi. Probably this was asked previously.. but I could not resist the urge to
> ask this very knwledgable community a question that would let me get a way
> from doing my (very messy) home work:
> <p>
> We would like to upgrade our company's Oracle server to the latest Oracle
> version (8i). We are considering switching from Unix as the OS on which
> Oracle is installed to Win2k Server. We could not get Oracle to give us
> stright answers to wither Oracle on NT will function as solidly as Oracle on
> Unix?
> <p>
> so, can the community here comment? <b>Is it advisable to use NT as a base
> for mession-critical Oracle installation?</B> Does it allow Oracle to grow
> to multi-giga-size seamlessly?
> <p>
> Just in case you are interested. Despite the fact that we never had problems
> with Oracle Unix, we are considering switching to Orace on NT just to
> standardize our servers and cut down on the maintenance headache.
Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT