Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:47870 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.algonet.se!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeed2.funet.fi!157.24.11.16.MISMATCH!news.lut.fi!not-for-mail From: hosia@lut.fi (Tuomas Hosia) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Any difference bet Oracle 8 on NT WS vs NT Server Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:17:55 GMT Organization: BTR Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3729d4fd.28059367@news.lut.fi> References: <7g9q1j$gjl$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <7ga2nl$8s3$2@autumn.news.rcn.net> Reply-To: hosia@lut.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 "Jerry Gitomer" kirjoitteli seuraavaa: >Eric Yu wrote in message <7g9q1j$gjl$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>... > >>Is there any difference between running Oracle 8 (or 8i) on NT 4 >>Workstation >>vs NT 4 Server? Namely, are there OS limitations that will impact Oracle >>features (supported network connections, etc.). >> >>We are looking to use NT4WS+Ora8 as a development and test deployment >>environment, but don't want to be hamstrung by any OS-specific limitations. >> > An MSCE told me that the only difference between NT server and NT >workstation -- up through NT 4.0 -- is the optimization and space devoted to >internal queues. I believe it since I have run Oracle on both NT server and >NT workstation and have not seen any difference. > > In spite of that for a system that is to be shared by several developers >I would go with NT Server, 4 processors, lots and lots of disk, a gig or >more of RAM, any monitor you can dig up. How many is 'several' as our company has currently 7 developers (Forms&Reports, also Centura) working on one instance and single-processor PII with single IDE-drive and 128M memory handles the load easily, on NT WS with default settings? Database isn't very large though, developer-version of it is about 600M, but same machine is also used as a workstation (mine) and it doesn't degrade performance substantially. Your proposition seems a fair amount of overkilling to me, if I may say so. :) Tuomas -- hosia@lut.fi(Tuomas Hosia) DoD#1684 \ On paljon hauskempi olla pakanana, Lappeenranta University of Technology \ ei tarvitse koskaan olla vakavana. Kotisivu: http://www.lut.fi/~hosia/ \ -o Eppu Normaali o-