RE: MS Server book
- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:53:44 -0500
Bob - Thanks for your excellent reply. My problem is not knowing what I
don't know. Your input is encouraging (as always), that maybe there isn't
that much to it. And thanks for the excellent tips.
- I'm not insisting on W2K for the Oracle DBA, although if the market
supports a couple of Unix for the Oracle DBA, you'd think one for MS2K would
not be unreasonable.
- So far we've been able to keep Oracle on Unix, but like many of you, I'm
being asked to start supporting SQL Server. On the wide variety of platforms
it supports (joke).
- I'm thinking maybe there is a MS2K book that has a few pertinent
chapters.
Specific topics that concern me are:
- What the heck is a service and what do I need to know?
- I keep hearing about the registry and how it can mess you up.
- Earlier NT systems needed to be reconfigured to support databases well.
Is that still true? Is there a checklist to ensure a W2K is configured for
SQL Server or Oracle? How do you ensure half the CPU isn't devoted to the
screen server?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I said it "looked" clear - Riddick
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Subject: Re: MS Server book
DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who has recommended Chris Kempster's ebook SQL Server
>2000 for the Oracle DBA. This book is really a marvel. Since most of my
>professional experience is on Unix, I feel that I need to learn more about
>the MS Server. Can anyone recommend a resource that can get me up to speed
>with what I will need to know about the MS server? It seems that the
>boundary between the system administrator and the DBA isn't as clear as it
>is with Oracle and Unix.
>
>
Hi Dennis
Not to over simplify this but I don't believe there is such a book as
windows 2000 server for the oracle dba. I'm pretty sure most of the
administration books would gravitate toward using the server to
authenticate uses, manage users, what the various ms services do - how
to admin internet information server - how to recover from corrupt
registries - domain controllers and he like. From a DBA perspective (my
experience is exclusively on NT and 2000 server) there isn't too much to
it.
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