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Oracle on Windows | |
| Subject: | Oracle on Windows book | |
| Date: | 2003-12-10 05:47:14 | |
| From: | Jonathan Gennick | |
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Response to: Oracle on Windows book
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| DBA's don't always have the luxery of choosing their platform. Read the original post. The platform choice, Windows in this case, was made long before Chad came on the scene. There may even be some very good reasons why his company chose to use Windows. Whatever the case, he has to deal with the environment that's in place, and it's unlikely he can change it on a whim. | ||
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Oracle on Windows book
2003-12-11 09:34:33 mhthomas [Reply | View]
I agree we are often told what platform to use, e.g. and unknown version of Windows in this case.
I hoped to amplify the comments of Richard by suggesting LINUX because its not really hard to setup, contrary to common opinion, FUD, 'the experts', etc., and does not cost anything for a LINUX license.
I don't think we can assume anything about Chad's environment from his post. I might have been more serious about my post if Chad had mentioned what version, workstation or server, of Windows, e.g. 98, XP, NT4, W2K Server/AS, W2003/32, W2003/64, etc..
Sorry if I offended anyone.
The approach for this type of book would be interesting because it could focus on Oracle's requirements, from the perspective of what Oracle needs on a server, e.g. cpu, disk, memory, network, backup/recovery, or the perspective could focus on configuring a Windows server (MCSE like) with the MS features (AD, disk management, etc) useful to an Oracle server.
I think both perspectives would be a lot for one book, but that would make a very interesting book.
There are some interesting books already available with a host of 'tricks' for operating Oracle on Microsoft Windows. Some of the issues Richard mentioned are covered in this book:
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qpe3x64p6i/sm/0972751351
Good luck.