Re: [Nolug] call for help: white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux, Unix & Oracle

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net>
Date: 29 Apr 2003 00:52:30 -0500
Message-Id: <1051595550.16231.7.camel@haggis>

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 18:39, 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

You don't mean that you totally ignore the databases, from a
performance-tuning point of view, do 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

Sounds like Rdb/VMS, except that Rdb is very easy to install,
and creating new databases is also easy. Of course, it's deeply
tied to VMS, and that kind of synergy is helpful.

> any of my Windoze servers.

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