On 3 Mar 99, at 12:22, Gill, Kathy wrote:
> OH, now I see the original post.
>
> Amazon.com just bought into Drugstore.com -- maybe they haven't had time
> to "educate" them yet? so not exactly a baby-brother (I don't think they
> had the same father).
>
> Also -- you SQL guys might be able to explain this -- the Oracle guy at
> LinuxWorld said that NT/SQL database cannot be "backed up" unless it's
> "taken down" -- ie, not available to serve the web. I know this is the
> case for Oracle 7 also, but not Oracle 8. What's going on that requires
> exclusive access to the DB? He implied that B&N has never backed up their
> DB!
Yeah, and I like your mentioning of checking lookup times between B&N
and Amazon. Might be interesting.
I have only used mSQL and mysql. I have never had to take either one
off-line to do anything. I routinely dump and extract megabytes of
data through them all online and I am often go and check how they are
responding on the web while I am doing this (actually I only do
megabytes with mSQL). mysql, btw, is much better at dumping and
extracting than msql.
BTW, I inherited msql on a Digital Unix and here is the uptime:
18:05 up 113 days, 1:40, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
113 days. Incredible I think.
I think mysql is a pretty interesting option for web use.
Does anyone know of any virtual host who offers Oracle? It would be
great to play. iserver says they plan on it but they still can't
help me get mod_perl or fastcgi to work there.
Peter
Might is not Right. But there is a lot of Might knocking
about in this world, and something has to be done about it.
-- King Arthur, The Once and Future King
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