Re: Terabytes + database on NT

"Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3ABD4DCC.561B877A_at_exesolutions.com...
> Let me confirm it for you ... Sun/Solaris is Oracle's primary development
> platform.

And Daniel would know, of course.

Actually, he seems not to know the difference between the 'Create Database' sql statement and the rest of a 'create database' script that he knocked together.

On that basis, I rather doubt that he's much to add on Oracle's development methods.

HJR
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> Which not only translates into it usually being the first platform on
 which a
> product is released ... but also the first on which bug fixes are
 released.
>
> And from my experience what you report is the norm. Solaris outperforms NT
 or
> Win2000 in security, scalability, stability, and performance.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
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> Jacques Voris wrote:
>
> > I might as well put my two cents in...
> >
> > At the company where I work we have run Oracle on NT, Solaris, and
 Netware
> > (yes Netware). Hands down the Solaris system was the best performer.
 Given
> > the same data set (about 50GB) everything was faster on the SUN box.
> >
> > Convential wisdom still dictates that UNIX based systems scale better
 and
> > farther than anything based on Intel processers.
> >
> > I was told by a person who was a developer for Oracle that their primary
> > development platform was SUN, but I have no independent confirmation of
> > this.
> >
> > I short, it has been my experience that SUN/UNIX is a better choice for
> > Oracle.
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Anurag Minocha wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > We are in the process of deciding the operating system to hold our
 database.
> > > It is expected that the database will be in Terabytes and will keep on
> > > growing at a very fast pace.
> > >
> > > Is NT the right o/s for this or we should move to unix. If unix then
 which
> > > flavor of Unix.
> > >
> > > I must tell you that the dataase will mainly consist of scanned
 images.
> > > Another solution which is possible to limit the size of the database
 is to
> > > store the path of the images in the database and store the images in
 the
> > > file system. In this way we can use NT, but I am not sure of the side
> > > effects of this.
> > >
> > > We are thinking of 8i or later.
> > >
> > > Please help.
> > > Thanks
> > > Anurag
> > >
> > >
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Received on Sat Mar 24 2001 - 23:26:14 CST