Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s_at_greenms.com> wrote in message news:ClCpc.192539$M3.152517_at_twister.nyroc.rr.com...
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> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net> wrote in message
> news:bWupc.6750$gr.523362_at_attbi_s52...
> > We have a slew of SQL Servers behind a firewall (none are outside it)
and
> we
> > have to apply the patches monthly. If we do not then we have what
> happened
> > a little over a week ago when the latest worm came out. We had to apply
> an
> > emergency patch in the middle of the day on our production systems that
> used
> > Windows. If we waited the machines would have kept rebooting due to the
> > worm. (as they already had 5 times that day). So don't give me this
> hooey
> > that you don't have to patch the servers monthly; we are at the whims of
> > some teenager in some foreign land. (and sometimes not so foreign)
> > Jim
> >
> >
>
> I will give you that hooey. While in most cases we are quite religious
> about applying patches, for reasons I can't get into, we could not apply
the
> patches against Slammer for months. And yet, Slammer had ZERO effect on
us.
> Why? Because there are other security measures besides patches. If
someone
> can't reach your SQL Server, then they can't Slammer to it. If you're
> getting hit, even behind the firewall, you've suffered from the jelly
donut
> issue and have a bigger issue than applying patches during the middle of
the
> day.
>
>
>

You are probably in a small shop then. We have tens of thousands of computers on our global network. Bank of America got hit, Siebel's site was down for days. Yet look at Sun or Oracle, nary a hiccup. Gee, might be a pattern here.... I guess we could do what the CIA and NSA do and make sure there isn't a connection to the outside world, the ultimate firewall. Jim Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 02:11:28 CDT