RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE

2001-02-06 Thread Holman, Rodney
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE Ross, I was at the Open World conference session where Jeremy Burton made the comments about clustering, OPS, data segmentation, etc. The data segmentation part was about MS SQLServer, and about how it creates significant

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Leith
Ep, I have 8i running concurrently on a Win2k system with SS7, and have to say that it still runs like a dream. Like I mentioned earlier Oracle is still my favourite databeast, but there are a few things that still cough and splutter - like OEM for example. The Java side of things can be a

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Alex, thanks for your positive comments about your enjoyment of my sense of humor. Laughing is good medicine in these serious times. On the other stuff, if you know of any independent testing labs you like, I'd be curious about their results, too

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE

2001-02-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE I understand the argument, Rodd and it raises three points/questions: 1) I can always back up a "state" ( part of a federation?) just like EMC/SRDF/BFD SAN does for the Oracle solution, and at less cost,

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Oh, btw, I have NOT supported a single large MS/SS database, but.I would be curious to hear more about them, and am (at least these days) the ULTIMATE AGNOSTIC. People with religion (Larry is God, Oracle is God, Gates is Satan, My God is better

Re: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Bill Pribyl
"Eric D. Pierce" wrote: Just got off the phone w/ Oracle tech support, and they said that OEM *is* definetly supported on Windows 2000, and should work fine. I stand corrected. It didn't work for me or a client of mine "out of the box" but I just went and turned on *all* the Oracle-related

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE

2001-02-06 Thread Tony Johnson
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE The whole idea behind 9i is CacheFusion which uses a high-speed interconnect to solve the pinging issues. At least that is the marketing line that will only be proved in time. Any database of any size should be using

Re: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Eric D. Pierce
On 6 Feb 2001, at 7:45, Bill Pribyl wrote: Date sent: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:45:49 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just got off the phone w/ Oracle tech support, and they said that OEM *is* definetly supported on Windows 2000,

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Leith
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows No problem.. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mohan, RossSent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 03:51To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: (Win2K vs NT4

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - CacheFusion

2001-02-06 Thread Gary Weber
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE CacheFusion is already available in 8i. They call it the first phase, or something along those lines. 8i version handles the redo blocks over the interconnect, whereas the 9i will also ship the actual data blocks. So

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Amen on the VMWARE and the value of knowledgeable SysAds! -Original Message- From: Jeffery Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:02 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-06 Thread Gregory Conron
On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, Jeffery Stevenson wrote: Enough monkeys, enough typewriters and enough time can get you Shakespeare. 8 monkeys, 5 minutes - Win98 source code. Cheers, GC -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gregory Conron INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows "NT still pants"...LOL!!! It must be panting alot, It has BLOWN THE DOORS OFF of "Oracle on Unix" in running SQLServer on NT, as has DB2. The general public ( and anyone else ) can wake up

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows LOL!!! Amen! -Original Message-From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:25 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows WHOOO a SQLServer vs. Oracle debate

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
I am running ORacle8i on Windows2000 and for what I use it for I see no difference from NT. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross Mark, There are no major performance concerns here (and we get Oracle "free" {system

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Scott . Shafer
-Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows SNIP Wanna drag? (heh heh heh) Well, I'd have to shave my legs

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows -Original Message- From: Mohan

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows TPC doesn't really matter - You are correct: no single metric covers it all. But, Oracle is sure all over the ad pages when it FINALLY manages to get one near the top. Which isn't often. And right now, hands down, SS2K is about FOUR TIMES

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows From what I know, Oracle8 is not yet formally certified on Win2K, believe it or not. But, I could be way wrong about this. Anecdotally, I have colleagues running every from clients through Net8 Names Servers to database servers

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows You might want to check those results again. Oracle has the top three in the TP-C, nonclustered results. || I did. The results speak for themselves. You need to click ALL RESULTS. (Or, are you saying that, in 2001, we should focus on NON_CLUSTERED

Re: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Bill Pribyl
"Eric D. Pierce" wrote: Ross Mark, There are no major performance concerns here (and we get Oracle "free" {system wide educational site license} - unlike MS/SQL), so what I want to know is: does Oracle8 generally work well on Windows 2000 server (compared to running it on NT4)? Well, I

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
de har har ) -Original Message-From: Jeffery Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:06 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Well, Oracle does have all three of the top spots in TPC-C for Non-clustered r

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Do you crash weekly? -Original Message- From: Kimberly Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Another way of looking at it: So lets say the 12 computer configuration were to have a failure in some *single* wintel box every 7 days .. who cares!! The shared nothing architecture underlying the system load BALANCES users to machines which

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows :)...so, no Win2K Oracle8, but 8i is cool, all around. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it! (Love the haddock.ani .!) -Original Message- From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - Federated Database Foolishness

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - Federated Database Foolishness What's a federated database || I don't know. Where did you read it? shrug We really need to understand this otherwise we'll be duped by Microsoft's deceptive benchmark claims!! || wow! thanks for saving me

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE I have some answers, for the curious: http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2623013,00.html It appears that SS can partition data storage among multiple machines, giving it blow your doors off performance

Re: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Bill Pribyl
I'm used to Oracle7.3 command line DBA environment. Is there anything in OEM that I "must have" to run the Oracle8.1.7/Win2k? I'm really not sure -- all I have needed to do with is startup, shutdown, and run SQL PL/SQL scripts. Good luck Bill --