RE: SUSE or Red Hat

I'm in no way an M$ supporter, but having spent the last month working on a plan to migrate our Oracle clients on M$ from 8.0.5 to 9.2.0.7, I can tell you that there are wonderful free tools at http://www.sysinternals.com that will help debug many Windohs programs, including finding out that a program using OO4O to connect to Oracle is pulling an OCIW32.DLL from System32 (it doesn't belong there) instead of the ORACLE_HOME\bin directory, causing a cascading failure of OCI calls. Noteables from the website:

Utilities
- File and Disk

   Filemon: This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity in real-time.
- Processes and Threads

   Regmon: This monitoring tool lets you see all Registry activity in real-time.
- System Information

   Process Explorer: Like Windohs' "Task Mangler" but muuuuch better.

HTH! GL! Rich

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ray Stell Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:52 AM
To: Mark Moynahan
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: SUSE or Red Hat

Sadly, oracle support of Solaris has really faded, which is really irritating given how 10 is looking. Have you looked at dtrace? It's the tool you have been looking for all your computing life. The key-word below is "concisely." When I saw it in action I was in awe.
Come to think of it, dtrace might be the reason oracle doesn't support solaris as well; little the OS or an app does is behind the scenes with dtrace in your tool belt.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/ "DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs."

I wonder if M$ has a dtrace-like tool for users ;)

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