RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-29 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Thanks for the link, I love that story:)) KK -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jacques KilchoerSent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 6:28 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT RE: 24 x 7

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Leith
Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be 2nd rate, I believe it to be 3rd rate. Too much to handle? ||No, that's a pretty simple statement to get my head around I think! You like to promote peoples views, whilst not

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Leith
Rachel, In the session detail screen, it will list all of the SQL currently in the SQLAREA for that session, so if you don't catch the blocked session straight away (away from your desk or out to lunch), you can in fact miss the SQL as it may have been aged out of the SQLAREA. The way I would

RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Guy Hammond
True story: I took a course in Strategic Management at grad school, one section of which was Disaster Planning and Recovery. A few months later, our building (I'm in the Informatics dept.) burns down: http://www.city.ac.uk/news/fire/ The only professor who needed his coursework resubmitted

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Just my 2p worth but I have been evaluating a few of the tools that Marks company provides and both me my colleagues (developers and DBAs) found them to be top notch (erm...excellent if this doesn't translate well) and basically a fraction of the cost that Quest etc. charge. I have spent a lot of

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
You got me on this one, but my guess would be Grandpa Simpson said that one:) KK -Original Message- Conron Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On June 27, 2001 03:05 pm, Mustafa wrote: True Fact: Unix was first invented in 1913 by my great

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
cool, now if I could get them to open their wallets. boy are there toys I want to buy for here! From: Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:25:55

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Leith
Thanks Lee! It's always great to hear when people enjoy using your products! And Lee is right - the products don't look as nice as some of Quest's tools do (Spotlight for instance), but then they are not ugly either, and in most cases, all provide the same if not more functionality for less, as

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Lee, so why didn't they quote you in the article in the latest Oracle magazine? :) Rachel From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:24:43

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Charlie Mengler
Rachel Carmichael wrote: cool, now if I could get them to open their wallets. boy are there toys I want to buy for here! Since I and others respect your opinion(s), what tools would you buy why them instead of others? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
. Different tools may be too expensive for me but not you. Or vice versa. Or too difficult for me to configure but not you. And so on. From: Charlie Mengler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Guy Hammond
*shrug* you have to reboot a Sun if you want to change the number of file descriptors. NT assigns them dynamically. Does that mean that Unix now isn't a suitable OS either? A few clues please, people. This discussion has become over-emotive. g -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
? :) Rachel From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:24:43 -0800 snip I would imagine once the American economy eventually sorts itself out

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Jenkins, Michael
This is an interesting thread which seems to reappear at regular intervals. I find it hard to believe that NT could be made 99.999% available at the same cost and administration duties as any UNIX based server. Now, if I cluster enough machines together I can probably make any Operating

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yours dear From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:36:42 -0800 erm who Marks company or mine ??? I haven't received one of those bloody

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mohan, Ross
Guy, Sidestepping the fact that you targeted your excellent reply to a person who has been disinvited from the list, I have to say it's one of the best posts I have read in a while ( on this my daddy is going to beat up your daddy OS trend ). I think most of us got into and stayed in this

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Guy Hammond
My $0.02: Unisys will build you a 99.999% available system, on NT. Boeing and NASDAQ, two very serious organizations, use NT for their line of business. I could go on and on, but I will summarize: Whatever your Unix box can do, my old VMS box can do better. Uptime, performance tuning,

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mohan, Ross
The Coast guard uses Unisys, too...but i don't know where NT fits in to their front line systems. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is an interesting thread which seems to reappear at regular intervals. I find it

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Terry Ball
I have had problems with my subscription to O mag. I will subscribe, recieve a copy then not recieve anything for 5 or 6 months - till I remember to re-subscribe. Then I'll get a copy and then nothing till I re-subscribe again. It has been that way for about 3 years. Terry Robertson Lee -

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
On one of their newer ships they were using NT, and it froze up a couple of times. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The Coast guard uses Unisys, too...but i don't know where NT fits in to their front line systems.

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mohan, Ross
wonderful. Someone should let George Clooney know. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On one of their newer ships they were using NT, and it froze up a couple of times. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Weaver, Walt
The software or the ship? --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana, USA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On one of their newer ships they were using NT, and it froze up a couple of times. -Original Message- Sent:

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Hahah, the software, the ship had to be towed back to port:) However, not sure if it was the coast guard or the navy, but I am going with the coast guard. KK -Original Message- Walt Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The software or the

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Henry Poras
Interesting how the concept of history is different for science vs. technology. Henry -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Guy, Sidestepping the fact that you targeted your excellent reply to a person who has been

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Sounds a little more familiar, I am pretty sure that it was a destroyer. I think I may have to do some investigating:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think it was the Navy. The US Coast Guard has something called

Re:RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread dgoulet
Ross, On number one, those Unisys workstations were standardized over all of the services since GSA singed a VERY large contract for them. We had them all over the place in the USAF as well. On the second point, your dead right. I do not remember the ship involved, but it turned out

RE: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mohan, Ross
Dick. || Thanks for chiming in! On number one, those Unisys workstations were standardized over all of the services since GSA singed a VERY large contract for them. We had them all over the place in the USAF as well. || Well..ok...but I never saw any in the Navy. But I was in what

RE: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
OH MAN, the F-22 with NT, oh jeez...Hey I love NT, but the amount of times I have had to reboot a machine, I couldn't imagine that in an F-22. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dick. || Thanks for chiming in! On

RE: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mohan, Ross
yea, they could call it the gpF-22 then.:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OH MAN, the F-22 with NT, oh jeez...Hey I love NT, but the amount of times I have had to reboot a machine, I couldn't imagine that in an

RE: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Ohhh...that was good, wish I would have thought of that:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L yea, they could call it the gpF-22 then.:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:01 PM To: Multiple

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Thater, William
Mohan, Ross wrote: yea, they could call it the gpF-22 then.:) give the phrase blue screen of death a whole new meaning.;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ You gotta program like you

RE: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Mohan, Ross
that's my job, soldier: Humor Mach One. Now, at ease, and smoke 'em if you got 'em. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ohhh...that was good, wish I would have thought of that:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hahah, the software, the ship had to be towed back to port:) However, not sure if it was the coast guard or the navy, but I am going with the coast guard. Navy ship USS

RE: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
It's funny what this thread has turned into!!! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 6:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L that's my job, soldier: Humor Mach One. Now, at ease, and smoke 'em if you got 'em. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
ahhahahahaha -Original Message- William Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 6:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Mohan, Ross wrote: yea, they could call it the gpF-22 then.:) give the phrase blue screen of death a whole new meaning.;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater Certifiable

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Gregory Conron
Give the man an onion! Or five bees for a quarter On June 28, 2001 11:31 am, Kevin Kostyszyn wrote: You got me on this one, but my guess would be Grandpa Simpson said that one:) KK -Original Message- Conron Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-28 Thread Kimberly Smith
Actually, I think that was the Navy. I remember discussions on this. It happened more then once. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hahah, the software, the ship had to be towed back to port:) However, not sure if it

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter McLarty
: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:56 PM To: Mohan, Ross Cc: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? why doesnt anyone just compare the platforms that the respective nt/unix versions run on? I dont really care for intel from square one, much less

Re: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Drake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I guess so if that was the only occurrence. I'll never know and I doubt that they will fess-up. At any rate, If one wants to use NT or any other OS for that matter in a 24x7 guaranteed manner then one should look into making as much as possible redundant.

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Leith
I dont like to sit on my ass as others pass 3rd rate information about a 3rd rate os on to others... The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Rajesh Dayal
You know it make me laugh how a whole lot of people out there moan about point and click technology - YET the business that I am in - third party GUI tools for databases - is BOOMING! So what is it? DBA's don't like a point click O/S - but one to help them with their job, is OK... Just my 50p

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Leith
Oh I agree with what you are saying there - and that is EXACTLY why we don't deal with any tools that actually touch user data (unless you count reorganizing tables/tablespaces etc..). And I'm not sure which tool you are actually talking about, there are good and bad in the market place.. I

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Gregory Conron
On June 27, 2001 07:55 am, Mark Leith wrote: slapping developers - what's the problem with them? No problem slapping developers rather enjoy it actually The issue I have with point click is the increasing number of database admins who can only use these tools. Put them in front of a

RE: Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter McLarty
Hi Try checking out all of your drivers. A mate of mine recently purchased a new motherboard and Athlon 900, firstly it seemed to run like a dog, after a bit of looking around he found out that it was probably the VIA chipset, so on went the new drivers, seemed to run better but still not

RE: Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Leith
I think I came across the route of the problem now. I have in fact installed all updated drivers from VIA, flashed the BIOS, switched IRQ's for my network card (it was in the adjacent PCI slot to the AGP slot) so there are no IRQ conflicts. I went on to the ELSA web support page, and discovered

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
starting ringing -- users calling to say Oracle is down. We were able to tell them to wait a minute or two and try again, it was fixed. Rachel From: Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter McLarty
Oh I agree As a newbie to the Oracle fold I found it oh so easy to dive into stuff with the DBA Studio, I suppose the thing that stops me is some 7 or more years hacking around Linux and Unix systems. Graphical tools are great for some things but you just cant beat the capabilities of a good

Re: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Peter McLarty
Interesting rambling, I had never seen a fault tree before but had in some way used one at times without understanding how to really use what i was doing, I will have to study these links some more Peter At 01:21 AM 27/06/2001 -0800, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I guess so

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread MHately
) | | Subject: Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? | -| Oh I agree As a newbie to the Oracle fold I found it oh so easy to dive into stuff with the DBA Studio, I suppose the thing that stops me

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001,Kevin Kostyszyn scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -Oooh...wow! Quick, maybe we should run out and convince 90% of the -business world that their entire infrastructure is a complete and udder pipe -dream and that the idea of trying to simplify our lives with the

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread antonio . belloni
Hi, The GUI is nice and very productive , but how an OS could pretend to be 24x7 when if you change configuration you must restart the computer. Regards, Antonio Belloni Sherman, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 26/06/2001 19:42:48 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread JOE TESTA
ORACLE-L || | ||+- -| | | | To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: (bcc: Mike Hately/ETECH) | | Subject: Re: OT RE: 24

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mark Leith
to wait a minute or two and try again, it was fixed. Rachel From: Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:55:28 -0800 Oh I agree with what you are saying

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Ji
, he/she might think hmmm, that was easy. ;) Richard Ji From: Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:55:28 -0800 Oh I agree with what you are saying

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Ron Rogers
Come on get real.. Who has had a Unix box for 88 years? Unless of course the box in a satellite circling the earth and the crossing of the dateline constitutes a day ROR mª¿ªm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/26/01 03:18PM Here's my Unix box: # uptime 12:09 pm up 32,245 days, 1:01, 14543 users,

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 06:16:16 -0800 I think GUI tools are a great boon. If nothing else, it gives damagement a pretty screen to look at while I am working on something else :) But isn't it better to let the damagement see me furiously typing at the keyboard

RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
*VERY* Interesting! Thanks, Paul. (where is Eric?) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I guess so if that was the only occurrence. I'll never know and I doubt that they will

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:01:05 -0800 EXACTLY!! I never say that a tool should be used instead of command line - I'm a great believer of having to know both - as there are pros

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Sherman, Edward
Been running since 1913. Cool! In 1919 E. 0. Carissan (1880-1925) built a factoring machine http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/carissan.html -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Come on get real.. Who has had a

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Mike, i'm with you there. alter database datafile '/fill/in/name/here' resize 200m; or right click in OEM and change the size. As long as you can do the previous then might as well use the latter :) joe

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
And I thought I was in a bad mood today. All nighter last night. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mustafa
True Fact: Unix was first invented in 1913 by my great great uncle (twice removed) Ralph Unix. Ralph worked with him as THE first DBA. I bet most of you didn't know that the Unix server Ralph is talking about is powered by steam engine! ;-) Defry - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Jon Allen
Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be 2nd rate, I believe it to be 3rd rate. Too much to handle? you can't have written that on a Windoze box - it would have corrected it for you ! :) Are you a genius or

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:41:20 -0800 Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be 2nd rate, I believe it to be 3rd rate. Too

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Speaks, Chuck W.
John,oops JON, Sounds like someone 1) Woke up on the wrong side of their UNIX box and 2) Has no tolerance for anything not similar to their own way of thinking. I think most of us will agree that UNIX is heads a shoulders a better platform for MOST systems that run apps like Oracle,

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Will everyone please drop the 24 x 7 from the subject?! I asked the question a few days ago and the discussion now has nothing to do with the question. Thanks to those who actually had input to the original question. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:57 PM To:

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Marty Bonner scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -I just got a shiver down my spine as I realized... you got kicked off of -Slashdot, didn't you? Not playing nice with the rest of the kids? - -Anyhoo, your rhetoric is more appropriate for that forum than this one.

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Rachel Carmichael scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: - -As for using a text based mua on a sun machine, which doesnt -attempt to correct mistakes, thus not creating its own, well, you are right -about that, but then it doesn't seem as if you need any help in introducing

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
] Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:41:20 -0800 Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be 2nd rate, I believe it to be 3rd rate. Too much to handle? you can't have written that on a Windoze box

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Hillman, Alex
Bad day man? Lighten up a little bit. Would be nice first to answer some Oracle questions posted on this list and then publish your opinion about idiots around there. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
S !! Alex is awake !!! ;-) - Kirti -Original Message- From: Hillman, Alex [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Bad day man? Lighten up a little bit

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? - now tell if sufficient free space exis

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Drake
D$,NTFS,3099,2758,341 E$,NTFS,4095,3849,246 F$,NTFS,8190,7684,506 This does require that you have the utility blat.exe installed and in your path. hth, Paul Original Message Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:50:28 -0800 From

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Ron Rogers
Right on Rachel!! You go get'em girl. To add to the mix.. Some of the participants on this list are extremely knowledgeable and published. They are willing and able to offer assistance when the opportunity arises. All people are given the chance to voice their opinion and should do so with

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jon, slowly now - no - slower than that, take you hands away from the keyboard. carefully now, shutdown your machine. slowly back away from your desk. now run like hell for your car. go home, get a glass of lemonade, and find the nearest shady place. breath deeply. now, isn't that

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Gregory Conron
On June 27, 2001 10:45 am, Thater, William wrote: -business world that their entire infrastructure is a complete and udder pipe dream ^^^ What do gui tools have to do with cows? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gregory Conron

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Gregory Conron
On June 27, 2001 03:05 pm, Mustafa wrote: True Fact: Unix was first invented in 1913 by my great great uncle (twice removed) Ralph Unix. Ralph worked with him as THE first DBA. I bet most of you didn't know that the Unix server Ralph is talking about is powered by steam engine! ;-)

Re: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Hi Smith, As everyone in the list has rightly pointed out that NT is stable and may also lead to problems. I myself installed a 50gigs DB in aIBM Netfinity server with RAID 1+0 combination in MSCS. Even tough the client lost a datafile and was unable to restore the whole db. Instead they

RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Bruce, great reply! great points to ponder! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron, I'm going to say that it might be possible with some provisions.

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Thater, William
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -I agree with His Chrisness on this one. - -If the avg(NT Admin) avg(Unix Admin), we'd -all be reading this mail on Window's boxes. -Er.what I mean to say is.. - -sly grin - -but, in all seriousnesswhen there

Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread dgoulet
HUMM, Our last unscheduled Unix down was due to the local power utility whereas the last unscheduled down on NT was due to the Blue screen of death (Ok, so the screen is Black on 2000). Reply Separator Author: Thater; William [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re:RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread dgoulet
Well, I guess so if that was the only occurrence. I'll never know and I doubt that they will fess-up. At any rate, If one wants to use NT or any other OS for that matter in a 24x7 guaranteed manner then one should look into making as much as possible redundant. Back in my Blue Suit days we

RE: Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Well, I betcha the reliability of NT2K and unix is very similar, given high level of SA competence and following good system engineering procedures. Anecdotal failure tales ( like Sun on Ebay, or any of the other Unix failures on NASDAQ, etc. ) are more than a bit similar to a game of

RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Bond Mike A Contr OC-ALC/TILC
We are running Oracle on a clustered Unisys Aquanta system and have had very few problems. I can only think of one time this year that I had unplanned downtime. The database files are on shared drives and the database software is installed on two nodes, allowing us to switch to node B in the

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Sherman, Edward
Well, my UNIX box would probably run forever except that the DDS3 tape changer can't seem to last a whole year without breaking. Need to shut the machine down to replace the tape changer. I'm hoping to get lucky this year. Only 120 days till victory! # uptime 12:09 pm up 245 days, 1:01, 4

RE: RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Christopher Spence
Ross Mohan for president! Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am hearing such

RE: Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Mark! This is cool...you got the bleeding edge so far out it's amazing MaximumPC has had some great articles on the Ge3 technology...programmable textures, in hardware... amazing having said that, the number one ( and two, and three and four ) problems with NT is that, in supporting

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Thater, William
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -well, then there must be a whole lot of unix boxes out there because we've -got 40 of them right here. i'd say all of my 32 databases have been up that -much too, but i've only had 25 of them up a whole year.;-) yup, i

OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
lolI just quote the Groucho Marx line: I wouldn't want to be in any club that would have people like me as a member. ;- -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross Mohan for president! Walking on water and developing

RE: RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
I am hearing such amazing storiesrunning for seven years no failures in 4 years.never any failures except when the NT administrator brought down the power grid, etc. I am not an old hand, nor am I a greenhorn, but in my experience, real, live production systems ( e.g. more than 100

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Here's my Unix box: # uptime 12:09 pm up 32,245 days, 1:01, 14543 users, load average: 120.19, 430.48, 3450.70 Here's my NT box: # uptime 12:09 pm up 1 days, 1:01, 1 users, load average: 0.019, 0.008, 0.00070 So, obviously, NT sucks. dusting off hands. -Original Message-

RE: RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
My life would be hanging by a pregnant chad. That would be hard to explain to my Mum. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L GOOD LORD ROSS!!! I second it. KK -Original Message- Spence Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? why doesnt anyone just compare the platforms that the respective nt/unix versions run on? I dont really care for intel from square one, much less a proprietary bloated, over marketed, under reliable software to run on top

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
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RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
, June 26, 2001 3:56 PM To: Mohan, Ross Cc: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? why doesnt anyone just compare the platforms that the respective nt/unix versions run on? I dont really care for intel from square one, much less a proprietary bloated, over

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Streeter, Lerone A LBX
(sarcasm noted) but my question to those reporting high uptime measurements is: that measure isn't a measurement of database availability or application uptime... is it? so what, you've got a machine that's been up 32,000 days. what does it do? that would be my first question. which isn't

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Cc: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? why doesnt anyone just compare the platforms that the respective nt/unix versions run on? I dont really care for intel from square one, much less a proprietary bloated, over marketed, under reliable software to run

RE: RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Henry Poras
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RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Jon Allen
3:56 PM To: Mohan, Ross Cc: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? why doesnt anyone just compare the platforms that the respective nt/unix versions run on? I dont really care for intel from square one, much less a proprietary bloated, over marketed

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Sherman, Edward
It isn't monochrome anymore... Really! :-) http://www.themes.org/php/pic.phtml?src=shots/990462645.jpg -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oooh...wow! Quick, maybe we should run out and convince 90% of the business

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Jon Allen
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