Re: Exporting and Importing SQL Statement Cache
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:04:15 +0100
Message-ID: <4935a288$0$2846$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>
"joel garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message
news:fdc670c4-2809-4bce-a568-b2566c143d5c_at_t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com... On Nov 28, 7:26 am, Stevo <steven.robb..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 Nov, 14:20, "Matthias Hoys" <a..._at_spam.com> wrote:
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>Yes, many places are still on 7 and 8, and most of them for laughable
>reasons, like "I'm not going to pay support on a stable system," or
>"it costs too much to convert," or even "my hardware doesn't run
>it." (That last can come from 64-bit requirements on some hardware/OS/
>Oracle combinations).
>If you have a plan to replace it with some other system, that might be
>a reasonable rationalization. I must say, I've seen that be severely
>abused, with the other system getting put off until parts are no
>longer available for the original hardware, and it becomes a serious
>problem.
A possible solution for old hardware: virtualization. Plus there are tools to convert an existing physical machine to a virtual one (p2v). Even works with unsupported operating systems like Windows NT4.
Matthias Received on Tue Dec 02 2008 - 15:04:15 CST