Re: Oracle

Dirk Moolman wrote: > I've chatted to a couple of people recently who have / are using Oracle, > and were told Online problems are a problem - is this true, or are they > just not configuring it properly ? > > Was also told the old versions, like 8 of Oracle could not do online > backups - but don't know where they are with this now. I guess I will > find out soon - with us migrating to Oracle. > > > My apologies for sending it to this group - will take the discussion > offline or somewhere else as suggested. > > Dirk > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of DA Morgan > Sent: 03 February 2005 04:49 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Oracle > > Dirk Moolman wrote: > > >>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >> >>------_=_NextPart_001_01C509D2.90FCEBBC >>Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset="iso-8859-1" >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >>Not there yet - but I heard backups are a bit "akward" in Oracle - not > > = > >>sure if it's been changed in the newer versions, like 10G > > > If someone can't do backups in any version of Oracle since 7 I > would suggest that they have an IQ below room temperature in > degrees Celsius. > > If they can't do it using RMAN from version 9i and on then perhaps > they should be reclassified as a vegetable. > > But why is this stuff in an Informix group? Shouldn't it be in c.d.o.? I think little of what you heard is accurate. Ask specific questions and I'll answer them as best I can. Else ... ask at c.d.o.server. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)