Where to begin with Solaris?

I'm interested in exploring Solaris and not quite sure where to begin. Currently running Ubuntu 12.04 on a dual-quad core Intel Xeon, which version of Solaris will work best?

Hi there,
you might want to grab a copy of the Open Solaris Bible (OpenSolaris Bible: Nicholas A. Solter, Jerry Jelinek, David Miner: 9780470385487: Amazon.com: Books) which, while being a little outdated, gives a quite decent jump start into the matter. Then install Solaris - should be piece of cake if you know Linux - and simply start comparing to what you know from Linux. Alternatively, if you don't have access to Solaris, go for OpenIndiana (http://openindiana.org), which is a true descendant of Sun's former open source variant, OpenSolaris. The operating system is free, the community is friendly, and you learn quite a lot you can take with you when you start using 'real' Solaris.
Cheers
Stevie

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first, Do I need a DBMS like Oracle or MySQL?
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SQL" I answer "But SQL is a language" they reply "We
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third, can't I create Notepad files and work with as a database?You mean store your data in text files? Sure, but you won't be able to use SQL to query, update, insert, or delete records. Flat text files are pretty old technology (think 60s/70s), before relational databases took over.
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StevenD: FYI, I did NOT give you the one star rating. I would never do that!
StevenD wrote:
Ow. Someone is grumpy today.
Well, this is an assignment, so it is probably homework.
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"...but have no idea where to begin".
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[SOLVED] SGA_MAX_SIZE pre-allocated with Solaris 10?

Hi all,
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SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Wed Jan 30 18:31:21 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Enter user-name: / as sysdba
Connected to:
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With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> show parameter sga
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
lock_sga                             boolean     FALSE
pre_page_sga                         boolean     FALSE
sga_max_size                         big integer 400M
sga_target                           big integer 280MSo I was expecting to see the OS pre-allocate 280MB of memory but when I checked the segment is actually the 400MB (i.e. SGA_MAX_SIZE) (my database owner is 'ora10g'):
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IPC status from <running system> as of Wed Jan 30 18:31:36 GMT 2008
T         ID      KEY        MODE        OWNER    GROUP CREATOR
CGROUP CBYTES QNUM QBYTES LSPID LRPID   STIME    RTIME    CTIME
Message Queues:
T         ID      KEY        MODE        OWNER    GROUP CREATOR
CGROUP NATTCH      SEGSZ CPID LPID   ATIME    DTIME    CTIME
Shared Memory:
m         22   0x2394e4   rw-r---   ora10g   10gdba   ora10g
10gdba     20 419438592 2386 2542 18:31:22 18:31:28 18:28:18
T         ID      KEY        MODE        OWNER    GROUP CREATOR
CGROUP NSEMS   OTIME    CTIME
Semaphores:
s         23   0x89a070e8 ra-r---   ora10g   10gdba   ora10g
10gdba   154 18:31:31 18:28:18
$ I wasn't sure whether Solaris 10 was one of the OSs with truly dynamic memory for the SGA but had hoped it was... this seems to say different. Really I'm just after some confirmation that I'm reading this correctly.
Thanks.
Joseph
Message was edited by:
Joseph Crofts
Edited for clarity

I don't want to get bogged down in too many details, as the links provided in previous posts have many details of SGA tests and the results of what happened. I just want to add a bit of explanation about the Oracle SGA and shared memory on UNIX and Solaris in particular.
As you know Oracle's SGA is generally a single segment of shared memory. Historically this was 'normal' memory and could be paged out to the swap device. So a 500 MB SGA on a 1 GB physical memory system, would allocate 500 MB from the swap device for paging purposes, but might not use 500 MB of physical memory i.e. free memory might not decrease by 500 MB. How much physical memory depended on what pages in the SGA were accessed, and how frequently.
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Some operating systems took advantage of this 'lock' flag to shared memory segment creation to implement some other performance optimisations. One is not to allocate paging storage from swap space anyway, as it cannot be used by this shared memory segment. Another is to share the secondary page tables within the virtual memory sub-system for this segment over all processes attached to it i.e. one shared page table for the segment, not one page table per process. This can lead to massive memory savings on large SGAs with many attached shadow server processes. Another optimisation on this non-paged, contiguous memory segment is to use large memory pages instead of standard small ones. On Solaris instead of one page entry covering 8 KB of physical memory, it covers 8 MB of physical memory. This reduces the size of the virtual memory page table by a factor of 1,000 - another major memory saving.
These were some of the optimisations that the original Red Hat Enterprise Linux had to introduce, to play catch up with Solaris, and to not waste memory on large page tables.
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With Oracle 9i and 10g when Oracle introduced the SGA_TARGET and other settings and could dynamically resize the SGA, this messed things up for Solaris. Because the shared memory segment was 'Intimate' by default, and was not backed up by paging space on the swap device, it could never shrink in size, or release memory as it could not be paged out.
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John

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Azimathul-Marlia wrote:
Hi Gurus,
If i am not wrong try this website.
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