Re: SQL Server for Oracle DBAs

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:33:59 +0200
Message-ID: <4845484f$0$14355$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

"Tony Rogerson" <tonyrogerson_at_torver.net> schreef in bericht news:g1tn7b$5pf$1$830fa17d_at_news.demon.co.uk...
>. Now - you answer me a question; why did I get flamed when I simply wrote
>the following in answer to the OP's question?
>
> "Whatever you do, don't try and apply Oracle theory and practices against
> a
> SQL Server install - the two products are very very different and have
> very
> different strategies for dealing with performance and scalability; take
> one - I believe in ORacle the recommend practice is to create one RAID 10
> array and plonk the data on that; in SQL Server we don't do it that way -
> we
> put the logs on their own mirrored pair; we put the data on it's own RAID
> 10
> array etc..."
>
> --
> Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
> http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson
> [Ramblings from the field from a SQL consultant]
> http://sqlserverfaq.com
> [UK SQL User Community]
>

I think the word 'plonk' did the job. If you had just written 'store' it might have been considered an objective remark.

Shakespeare Received on Tue Jun 03 2008 - 08:33:59 CDT

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