On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:19, Bogi wrote: > Hi Evan. > There would be 2 problems, and I would have to say dont do that. > -1- As Vintage msSql is not the fastest DBM, running it under emulation will > not emprove on the response time. Worsening an already bad situation. > -2- As things go, Abovementioned DBM does use some undocumented/ > Misdocumented (features) of its native file-system, so it will loose data and > crash eventually. Even if you run it on an ntfs partition. > > I would suggest a full port of the dbm to some open-source or propriatery db > that runs natively on Linux, on say a normal ext3 of reiserFS or xfs, jfs, > whatever and save yourself the dayly crash-recovery cycle and the wrath of > humaity (the users):-) > Cheers > Szemir
If that's not possible you could run it under vmware. You'll take a bit of a performance hit, but it sure makes it nice to restore to a previous state. Like say the state before that new worm attack struck. Just a thought. > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 08:41, you wrote: > > Hey people > > > > Is it possible to run SQL Server 7 thru WINE? And before you all ask, cuz I > > have to for work and yes we have looked into MySQL and Postgresql also. The > > existing system uses SQLServer but we have to put the DB in a new box and > > wanted to see if I could make it a Linux box instead. :) > > > > Thanx, > > Evan Brown -- Neil Jolly (with Yoda-like voice) "Confrontation leads to anger... Anger leads to fear... Fear leads to using Windows NT in mission-critical combat systems... And this is how the ancients fell...
