Re: 90GB table on Windows 2000

"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:

> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3da68457$0$1292$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > "Jim Stern" <jdstern_at_k2services.com> wrote in message
> > news:ao52s5$fdl$1_at_news.utelfla.com...
> > > Damn right... NT is definitely a no no for real critical applications,
> too
> > > many variables for the O/S to be stable.
> >
> > Are you sure this isn't just a knee jerk response. We have 2000 servers
> > running line of business apps that have been up for (checks uptime) 118
> > days. The downtime was for power work. Setup correctly windows 2000 *is* a
> > stable OS. Now I'm not suggesting that we move apps supporting 10,000
> users
> > across to win2k from Solaris or HPUX or whatever, but windows is now a
> > perfectly satisfactory server operating system. Moreover in this
> particular
> > case the application appears to be a single table app storing logs or
> stats
> > or some such.
> >
>
> Yup. Frankly, I'm getting bored with the "Micro$oft" and "Windoze" crap.
>
> My home server (2000) has been up for 221 days. It would have been more,
> but the previous 119 days were interrupted by a thunderstorm knocking out
> the power. One UPS later, and all is well. Even my XP desktop, which gets
> punishment aplenty and all manner of freeware installs, deinstalls and
> anything in between, has been up for 54 days.
>
> This myth that Windows is unstable is just that: myth. These days. But
> even so, I remember my NT4 servers at a large Insurance company running for
> three months at a time without interruption, except when I wanted to bounce
> them for service pack or backup issues.
>
> I blame the installers. Not the software.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
> >
> > --
> > Niall Litchfield
> > Oracle DBA
> > Audit Commission UK
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> >
> >

Great. Mine too.

But then I'll bet you a burger and fries you didn't put 900GB of data an it and open it up to many users attacking simultaneously with multiple tools.

Windows is a perfectly good O/S within certain parameters just as SQL Server is a perfectly good database within certain parameters. And there are times that a PostIt! Note is the right database too. But those parameters just don't happen to include terabytes of data and high hundreds to thousands of simultaneous transactions from multiple users using multiple non-Microsoft tools.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 10:43:33 CDT