Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-27 Thread Stefan Jahnke
mailing list. Michael Hesseltein is doing a terrific job there! -Original Message- From: Dwayne Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: linux Oracle -- best combination In a previous job

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-23 Thread Jaeck Stephan
a terrific job there! -Original Message- From: Dwayne Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: linux Oracle -- best combination In a previous job, I was running Red Hat 6.2 and Oracle 8.1.7

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Joe Testa
I've not really checked out Suse, you have to buy it versus being able to get RH for free? joe Scott wrote: I believe that Oracle has decided that when porting to linux all products will be ported to SuSE and then perform post release certifications on Redhat. I believe stability and

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Now Caldera is opening up original unix code under GPL (or a modifed version of that), there will be even more fun in various versions that are available freely. Cheers Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Christopher Spence
PostGresSQL has been out for years, and is not RedHat specific, all distributions have included it. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978)

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Grabowy, Chris
You can download Suse, but you have over 6,000 files to download. It's all in a specific directory on there FTP server. On the other hand, for RH you can just download a few ISO files and burn them into CDs. Easy. I believe that Suse Personal, with CD and manuals, is 30 bucks. I am assuming

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Christopher Spence
Yeah, the other thing, 6000 files which consist of 500Mb is about 10x slower to download than 1 file which is 600Mb The TCP protocol, ramps, which means, it gets up to speed within the first few seconds of delivery, when your downloading many small files, your bandwidth is cut down by 10 fold if

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread JOE TESTA
6000 files, what a pita, guess i'll stay with hacking rh to run oracle :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 10:16AM You can download Suse, but you have over 6,000 files to download. It's allin a specific directory on there FTP server.On the other hand, for RH you can just download a few ISO

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Jared Still
Joe, It's cheap. $60-70 for the pro version. Even though I've been a long time RH user, I prefer SuSE simply for the documentation and admin utils. Jared On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:50, Joe Testa wrote: I've not really checked out Suse, you have to buy it versus being able to get RH

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread JOE TESTA
and its only 2.3K :) guess i'm spoiled being able to grab darn near anything that oracle has from technet. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 11:00AM True, but now RedHat pushes it as the 'Red Hat Database'...http://www.redhat.com/products/software/database/Christopher Spence wrote:

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: linux Oracle -- best combination Have you tried an index hint on the first query yet? Have you tried NVL(cmm_id,101) = 101, NVL(cust_id,101) = 101 NVL(Friendly_session_id,100) = 100 loc_to_utc(NVL(creation_date,21-jun-2001')) between your dates? -Original Message

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2001-08-22 Thread JOE TESTA
granted $60 is not much but its A LOT more than free :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 11:56AM Joe,It's cheap. $60-70 for the pro version.Even though I've been a long time RH user, I prefer SuSEsimply for the documentation and admin utils.JaredOn Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:50, Joe Testa

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Vikas Kawatra
We're trying to re-write some SQL such that the index on columns in the where clause is used.Logically ,the query is as below .But this query does not use the Index .However ,if we re-write it as below(see 2nd query) - the index is used :but the query returns incorrect results .Can you suggest

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Dwayne Cox
In a previous job, I was running Red Hat 6.2 and Oracle 8.1.7. This was quite stable. Keep in mind that we were not supporting hundreds of users. I prefer SuSE because of the docs so I was pleased to see them become the 'lead' platform for Oracle on Linux. Still, I have not had a chance to

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Gogala, Mladen
of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: linux Oracle -- best combination In a previous job, I was running Red Hat 6.2 and Oracle 8.1.7. This was quite stable. Keep in mind that we were not supporting hundreds of users. I prefer SuSE because of the docs so I was pleased to see them become

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Molina, Gerardo
mailing list. Michael Hesseltein is doing a terrific job there! -Original Message- From: Dwayne Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: linux Oracle -- best combination In a previous job, I

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Curry
Lisa and others, About a year ago, I was working for a company as a Linux systems engineer (Read as: Tech guy doing sales support). Most of our customers wanted Linux systems, and it was my responsibility to provide them the correct combination of Linux and hardware to meet their needs.

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-21 Thread Christopher Spence
I would be curious to see these tests going forward, seeing as RedHat support is difficult to do with 9i and such. And suse now being Oracle's perfered linux. I wonder if these results have changed. I never really played with Oracle on Linux, but if I ever had to, I would be curious. Do not

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-21 Thread Brian McGraw
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Red Hat Oracle's preferred Linux distribution, right up until the time they announced the availability of the Red Hat Database (PostgreSQL)? Brian Christopher Spence wrote: I would be curious to see these tests going forward, seeing as RedHat support is

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-21 Thread Scott
I believe that Oracle has decided that when porting to linux all products will be ported to SuSE and then perform post release certifications on Redhat. I believe stability and support of multiple Linux distributions was a factor in this decision. I run both Redhat and SuSE and I actually perfer