Re: Oracle On Compaq Server

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1077814602.488439_at_yasure...
> We're talking Oracle here not MS Word. Do you really want your
> production database running on a platform where at least once a
> week you are instructed to apply a security patch and reboot?

I have no problem with running production databases on Windows. scheduling maintenance windows is perfectly fine by me.

> Maybe it is just me ... but I think a DBA that doesn't show the
> initiative to learn Linux (or some other *NIX flavour) is an
> endangered species.

That isn't just you, but then in that world mySQL is the db to learn. Not Oracle.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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