RE: SUSE or Red Hat

I'm in no way an M$ supporter, but having spent the last month working
on a plan to migrate our Oracle clients on M$ from 8.0.5 to 9.2.0.7, I
can tell you that there are wonderful free tools at
http://www.sysinternals.com that will help debug many Windohs programs,
including finding out that a program using OO4O to connect to Oracle is
pulling an OCIW32.DLL from System32 (it doesn't belong there) instead of
the ORACLE_HOME\bin directory, causing a cascading failure of OCI calls.
Noteables from the website:

Utilities
- File and Disk
   Filemon:   This monitoring tool lets you see all file system activity
in real-time.
- Processes and Threads
   Regmon:    This monitoring tool lets you see all Registry activity in
real-time.
- System Information
   Process Explorer:  Like Windohs' "Task Mangler" but muuuuch better.

HTH!  GL!

Rich


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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Stell
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:52 AM
To: Mark Moynahan
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Subject: Re: SUSE or Red Hat


Sadly, oracle support of Solaris has really faded, which is really
irritating given how 10 is looking.  Have you looked at dtrace?
It's the tool you have been looking for all your computing life.
The key-word below is "concisely."  When I saw it in action I was in
awe.
Come to think of it, dtrace might be the reason oracle doesn't support
solaris as well; little the OS or an app does is behind the scenes with
dtrace in your tool belt.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/
"DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris
Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to
permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely
answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system
and user programs."

I wonder if M$ has a dtrace-like tool for users ;)
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