how to find instances on server ??

From: Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:37:55 +0100
Message-ID: <E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703B98DD7@lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>

Morning Paul,

IDMS eh, lovely hierarchical database that one. They did have a 'relational' version for a while (IDMS(R)) but it wasn't a proper relational.

IDMS(X) was my first ever database, well, after the one I wrote in ZX Basic on a 1 KB (yes KB) Sinclair ZX-81 to catalogue my record collection, running on ICL mainframes. I actually liked it as a DB.

This Oracle stuff is way better though.

I never did get my records catalogued, by the time I'd loaded the database software there was no bleeding memory left to store more than about 5 rows. Ah well, I was young and stupid in those days.

Cheers,
Norm.

Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk

Tel: 0113 289 6265
Fax: 0113 289 3146
URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Brewer [mailto:paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk] Posted At: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:44 PM Posted To: server
Conversation: how to find instances on server ?? Subject: Re: how to find instances on server ??

"Brian Peasland" <oracle_dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:3ED3D46A.9E7E58B6_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> > If it's *ix, ps -ef|grep dbw
> > If it's BG, Control Panel/Services
> >
> > Are there any other OSs out there these days? :-(
>
> There's always IBM mainframes

Running Oracle? Wow! What version?
We have a mainframe, but it doesn't run Oracle; it runs IDMS or some such.

Regards,
Paul Received on Thu May 29 2003 - 03:37:55 CDT