Re: Linux vs. Windows performance.

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:10:39 +0100
Message-ID: <c1dml8$mfi$1@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>

Chuck wrote:

> Hans Forbrich <hforbric_at_yahoo.net> wrote in
> news:oWpZb.28148$n17.25302_at_clgrps13:
>
>

>>>It was supposed to work on 8.1.5, 8.1.6 (what a horrible release),
>>>and 8.1.7 as well. In fact, way back on 8.1.5 (2 years ago maybe) I
>>>was told by Oracle Tech.Support to enable DCD and that would fix my
>>>orphaned threads problem. It did not. About a month ago, they told me
>>>it was the cause of my orphaned threads problem, disable it and that
>>>would fix the same problem. It did not. I wish I could simply move
>>>all these Win2k instances to unix but the vendor will not support the
>>>application on any platform but win2k. :-(
>>
>>Unless the vendor has deliberatly put server-side hooks to the OS 
>>(rare), there is no technical reason for running the database on any 
>>specific OS.

>
>
> Automated maintenance jobs run on the DB server. Also, the vendor is
> responsible for schema maintenace during upgrades. All of their upgrade
> scripts are windows batch files and all of their technical expertise is
> geared towards Windows.

Which makes me shiver: their expertise should be Oracle, then Windows...

>
> I am trying to convince them to let me move the database to AIX, and they
> can still run their maintenance/upgrades from the Win2k server. They
> should be able to just set the LOCAL environment variable to the tns name
> I give them for their database and everything should work. They have
> never done this before however and are reluctant.

See - the above already gets proven; their knowledge of Oracle is less-than-desired, to say it politely.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Mon Feb 23 2004 - 14:10:39 CST