Re: Can I run SQL Server 7 and Oracle 8i on the same computer?

Oracle will use whatever memory is assigned to it, regardless of whet the other needs of the machine might be.
This means that if you assign half of the physical RAM to your test Oracle database, it will not be usable by SQL Server (or anything else, for that matter).
This means that you will 'see' poor performance from your production SQL Server and your test Oracle database will probably perform well. It all depends on what your motives are.

Don Macpherson

"Sir Chive" <sirchive_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG.12b8e088c8d5505598968e_at_news.earthlink.net...
> I'm running a copy of SQL Server 7 on NT under fairly light load on a
> decent departmental server .
>
> We probably have 10 to 20 concurrent connections most of the time. The
> box is a dual 450 with 384MB and a 4 disk RAID 10 array.
>
> I would like to run Oracle 8i simultaneously on the same machine for
> developement purposes. The connections to Oracle would be very low, for
> testing purposes only.
>
> Are there any obvious gotchas? Can both services co-exist peacefully? Is
> this a really bad idea or will it likely be OK?
>
>
Received on Fri Dec 10 1999 - 22:49:56 CST