Re: Unix to Windows DBA translation

From: Chuck <chuckh_at_softhome.net>
Date: 2 Jul 2003 16:10:00 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns93AC7BC32E740chuckhsofthomenet@130.133.1.4>

rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com (Rauf Sarwar) wrote in news:92eeeff0.0307012111.5f479057_at_posting.google.com:

> Chuck <chuckh_at_softhome.net> wrote in message
> news:<Xns93AB8047AA1D6chuckhsofthomenet_at_130.133.1.4>...

>> 
>> on unix. I have a few databases on Windows only because of a third
>> party product that dictates both the platform and database.

>
> If your third party product is making Oracle platform dependent on
> Windows only... then I would say that it is a crappy product and you
> should look for a substitute.

I still scratch my head as to why the vendor is dictating the o/s platform for the database server. The application itself runs on a separate server (also win2k) and connects to the database over OracleNet. Why they should care what platform the database runs on is beyond me. In fact, I know that if I quietly moved the database to one of our unix servers and changed the tnsnames.ora file on the app server, the app would never miss a beat and they'd never even know it happened.

The only time they do anything on the database server is when they upgrade the app they sometimes run DDL from there. They could just as easily run it from the app server if they aren't comfortable working in unix.

When we suggested letting us move it to unix a year ago, and relieving them of any database support, they said they'd do it but jacked up the maintenance cost by $100K US. Needless to say, we left it on Windows. Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 11:10:00 CDT