Re: Advice about moving to Solaris?

Spoil sport.

How about Scott McNealy's barber is better than Bill's? Can we at least do that?

Daniel Morgan

Paul Brewer wrote:

> Guys,
>
> gdas has had some good advice so far.
> Let's not let this thread descend into a unix vs NT war...
>
> Paul
>
> "gdas" <gdas1_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:7a4ed455.0202142254.5ab2c4a7_at_posting.google.com...
> > I've been an Oracle DBA for about 2 years now. The role sort of fell
> > into my lap after being an oracle app developer for the previous 7
> > years. I don't by any means consider myself an expert dba, but I have
> > been able to acquire an incredible amount of knowledge in the past
> > couple years and I'm confident in my abilities to install, configure,
> > tune, backup and in general maintain a smooth running database.
> >
> > All my DBA experience has been with Oracle running on either NT or
> > Windows 2000. We're in the process of upgrading the hardware in our
> > datacenter and my boss wants me to consider switching the Oracle
> > servers over to Sun Solaris boxes.
> >
> > Unix scares the heck out of me. I have basic familiarity with UNIX.
> > I can navigate the file system, copy/move files, set permissions on
> > files and directories and edit a text file. That's about all I can do
> > in UNIX right now.
> >
> > Is my lack more advanced unix experience an issue in regards to being
> > a DBA for an Oracle server on unix? If so, what exactly do I need to
> > be familiar with about the Unix OS?
> >
> > Probably everything I have ever done with oracle on windows has been
> > through sql*plus (from a remote client), svrmgrl or through a text
> > editor (modifying the init/tns/sqlnet .ora files). I've also copied
> > files around for backups, aside from that I am not doing much of
> > anything at the OS level. Even most of the monitoring scripts I have
> > rewritten run from remote machines and not physically on the database
> > server.
> >
> > I can do all of the above regardless of whether the DB is Windows,
> > Unix or whatever OS.
> >
> > There was a time several months ago where I had to add a new physical
> > disk and extend a raid partition. I know how to do this in Windows...
> > wouldn't even know where to begin on a Sun box.
> >
> > I assume the biggest challenges are the initial installation of the
> > oracle software on unix? Would that be correct? Does Oracle on Unix
> > require more intimate knowledge of the OS? Do OS level parameters
> > have to be configured that do not apply on Windows?
> >
> > We have a consultant working for us part-time, 2 days a week (or on an
> > as needed basis). He's a unix guru, but he doesn't know Oracle... but
> > I do. Can the two of us together, be successful in making this happen
> > (eventually the consultant's knowledge would trickle over to me)? Or
> > would you suggest I stay with windows?
> >
> > Would appreciate any advice you have to offer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gavin
Received on Fri Feb 15 2002 - 16:02:57 CST