Any RAC experts out there? Any quick win tips for an interview Thursday morning? I've been linked with Oracle in a support or advanced user role since version 6.1 or thereabouts, but now am going for a techie interview which involves RHEL4.x and RAC - any pointers as to stupid things not to say, or good things to know about it which don't require in-depth knowledge - I'm old and sensible enough to know not to bull**** about stuff I really don't know about, but to say I know where to look - but a few terms to sound familiar with (I don't mind some research in the few hours beforehand when I'm supposed to be doing other work ) may not go amiss.

TIA

I can't help you on the Oracle stuff, but I just wanted to wish you good luck !

I can only help with RHEL4, we did have oracle running on it, but well it wasn't pretty.

Most things Oracle aren't pretty (no offense )

That said, good luck

The willing to attend suitable training to bring yourself up to speed is usually a good one when you can't answer a question.

Good luck

Training eh - that rings a faint bell somewhere - nope, I can't remember what it is...

Oracle is IMHO still the best, but I'm biased. Maybe DB2 comes close - I've not had the chance to play with it much. SQL Server - perlease!

Noooo not SQL server :P

Now MySQL or PostgreSQL is a different kettle of fish. Oracle is obviously rock solid, but damn expensive and a PITA in my opinion. Unless you really need it oracle is overkill, but when you do need it you will be pleased you used it I would guess. DB2 is very nice these days though

MySQL is still pretty basic in terms of its storage technology, although it manages to be quite fast. Postgres - hmmmm not had much exposure to that - did it grow out of Ingres?

If you are using MySQL make sure you set the table types to InnoDB and all will be fine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL - More than I know about it's past, I just use it, but it was written by some of the same people who wrote ingres.

Good luck Nick!

But it has to be db2, from big blue, especially db2 viper with xml wotsits

/me wish I could be a name maker type job person.

Good luck sar!

SQL Server isn't too bad