Re: Workgroup Server and WinNT

In article <4gteje$5ru_at_denver.denver.ssds.com>, "Thomas W. Hillman" <twh_at_ssds.com> wrote:
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> Good evening,
>
> Anyone out there with expereience using WinNT and oracle Workgroup
> server? Any tricks, tips, hints, good or bad vibes about this
> combination? Any advice would be of value.
>
> TIA
>
> - twh
>
The highlights would include:

1. Yes, it does work and provides reasonable performance.
2. You have to understand a fair amount related to NT services and its way of doing business which is different from Unix.
3. Use TCP/IP for SQL*Net, Named Pipes is not useful across a network for any real work.
4. Be especially conscious about input/output bottlenecks across drives and controllers. These are often much slower than what you find under Unix.
5. The tools (half of which run under Windows and the other under Windows NT) are confusing, but you can get them to work. Oracle uses SQL*Net to communicate between the 16-bit tool world (i.e. SQL*Plus) and the 32-bit world (i.e. the database). Therefore, you have to build network connections between these worlds (by loading both orawin and orant products). Hopefully this goofiness will go away when they have all 32-bit products.

That is the quick and dirty tour. Hope it helps. Received on Tue Feb 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CET