Wow. What I found great about this last message was not the content but the
form. It was a good narrative. A nice little essay. Props.
ml
PS. get a tech writing gig in magazines and journals mmay....
On Monday 28 April 2003 06:39 pm, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2003 08:53 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > > > Is Oracle really as DBA-intensive as I've heard?
>
> In the same way that a 747 is harder to get off the ground than
> a Yugo is to get out of the driveway, Oracle might be harder.
> But then, once at cruising altitude, it's basically effortless. If you
> take your hands off the Yugo for more than a few seconds, you
> will surely crash. Once my Oracle databases are set up the way
> I want them, they stay up as long as the hardware holds on. I take
> them for granted, like the sunrise. I sure don't feel that way about
> any of my Windoze servers.
>
> I have no doubt that anybody who can pass the MCSE test can
> operate a SQL server database as well. It's like Windoze that
> way. Just keep a firm hand on the wheel, and hope something
> doesn't jump out in front of you. It hasn't changed much since
> they raped Sybase for it. But then, that's true of many of
> Micros~t's products. A fancier facade with each new iteration,
> but little of substance underneath.
>
> At least Oracle is improving with each new version. Most DBA's
> find the new features worth the upgrade. I know I do. Anyway,
> I've been using Oracle on Linux in production where I work for
> three years now on the process control side. IT was sufficiently
> impressed that they switched from Windoze to Linux as well.
> Its a smallish database, maybe 50 gigs or so, with about 1200
> transactions per minute. The _ONLY_ outages have been
> hardware related: RAID controller, 15k SCSI drives, and
> power (UPS's don't last forever).
>
> If you are really looking for something for your CIO, send him the
> articles about Oracle converting internally from Solaris to Linux.
> If the second largest software company in the world is converting
> to Linux, what else do you need. Maybe drop other names too,
> like Google, Home Depot, and Toyota. Any of those sound familiar?
>
> Andy Johnson
>
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