Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

Gentlemen, I see that You are all very knowledgable and I hope You dont' mind if I ask You few questions regarding Oracle and Linux. It is just that they don't teach me a damn thing at this University and I hope You can tell me how to go about learning Oracle. I have user provileges for 7.1.5 version( which is pretty old, huh ?). I have done few things with sql and pl/sql. Also if anuone would recomend good Linux book or maybe if there is such that makes parallel between Linux and Unix.

Any Advice is appreciated.

Vladan from Windsor

In article <374c3e68.283392_at_news.euronet.nl>,   bas_at_datadesign.nl (Bas Scheffers) wrote:
> On 25 May 1999 22:52:23 GMT, sweh_at_mpn.com (Stephen Harris) wrote:
>
> >and HP is DB/Finance). But bash _is_ deficient when compared to ksh
> >IMHO :-)
> I'll check it out!
>
> >For experimentation and learning of Oracle, Oracle on Linux i386 is
pretty
> >good. And Linux PC's are cheap! But I wouldn't trust Linux with my
> >financials data, despite liking it very very much.
> Rather Linux than NT ;-) but yes, I wouldn't trust it with that kind
> of data, yet. It's more a fact of the applications to mature, all
> RDBMSs are still in their first release and no one has an actual data
> of how it will restore after 2 years in production, 100 gig's worth of
> transaction logs, and the drives go up in flames. I do trust the OS
> itself, but also there is still a lot of change going on, not the
> backward compatibility you excpect for the commercial alternatives,
> especialy when it comes to glibc. The fact that Sybase runs smoothly
> on a glibc2.1 machine makes me thing they simply linked it staticly.
> It's good to be a Linux fan, but you have to stay realistic. But in
> the end, what this discussion started about: It's a hell of a way to
> learn Unix.
>
> >Once you spec a PC to the stability
> >requirements of a HP K class or a E3000 (mirroring, redundance CPUs
etc)
> >the machines get expensive.
> And in the end it'll never get as reliable, harware speaking.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bas.
>

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Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Received on Mon May 31 1999 - 22:29:19 CDT