Re: Automatic startup of multiple instances on one Win2k-Machine??

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1063153988.302670_at_yasure>...
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
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> >"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message
> >news:91884734.0309091446.5483af7c_at_posting.google.com...
> >
> >
> >>"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
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> >>
> >news:<3f5d9725$0$246$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
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> >
> >>>Things that can cause this behaviour are
> >>>
> >>>1. The service is set to autostart but the instance isn't, daft as it
> >>>
> >>>
> >sounds
> >
> >
> >>>you can configure these seperately
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm not sure whether it's me or Oracle that is daft (although I'll
> >>gladly accept psychotropic prescriptions when dealing with 9iAS), but
> >>are they now calling things "instances" that don't have databases
> >>associated with them? That's how I'm reading metalink note 243561.1,
> >>where they talk about "installed on BOTH Infrastructure AND Mid-Tier
> >>instances." Or is it just weird for me because I'm trying to do it on
> >>one box? Or did I lose an instance somewheres? Or is there some
> >>different definition of home and instance on windows?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >True: 9iAS has instances, too. But they are not the same instances as we are
> >used to on the back end. Your quote appears to refer to 9iAS.
> >
> >And yes, I've complained about it in the past, but I'm not sure what you
> >*would* call an, er, 'occasion' of an install of 9iAS.
> >
> >Regards
> >HJR
> >
> >
> >
> It appears that marketing at Oracle has way too much time on its hands
> when it comes to renaming products.
>
> SQL*Forms to Oracle Forms to Developer to Developer/2000 to Developer
> Suite to Internet Developer Suite
> or the constant rename of Context to Intermedia to Oracle Text to ....
> or my personal favorite .... is it a pfile, parameter file, init.ora,
> initSID.ora, ....
>
> But when it comes to words like BLOCK and INSTANCE they seem to be
> snorting Novocaine.
> Taking the same word and reusing it to mean wholly different and
> incompatible things.

If it were totally different, that wouldn't be such a bother - "instance" is used in some OS contexts, for example, so there is not much clash. But in EM, for example, they've got "standalone instances", which explode into a collection of application server thingies. So they shoulda named it something descriptive of such a collection, like Application Server Set, or ASS. EM should have been called, Keen Interactive Server Supervisory Manager Application, of course.

Fortunately, I'm avoiding the farm and cluster jokes.

:-)

jg

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