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I'm running several small databases on 8.1.6. Everything is fine, except
for the occasional listener hang. From gleaning Metalink, it looks like
Oracle didn't quite make their goal of making the listener asynchronous.
Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Tina Ridgley [mailto:tlridgley_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 1:36 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: What is your experience with 8.1.6?
Cherie,
We are on the verge of implementing a production
Reservations system (mission-critical) on Oracle 8.1.6
running on Sun Solaris 2.6. Our database initially
will be small so we are not using partitions. We have
just completed most of our technical and functional
testing and everything looks good. Our production
database will be < 5GB in size to start though we ran
a larger amount of data successfully for a volume
testing phase. We are using multi-master replication
and also are using the Oracle Enterprise Manager
software installed on a Solaris host with the client
being run from our desktops which are Windows NT 4
workstations. We will be using OEM for event
management, performance monitoring and for some
replication management features. These things are for
the most part, set and tested and are working well.
All of this is software delivered with Oracle 8.1.6.
There are a couple of configuration issues you need to
be aware of which do have work-arounds. They are as
follows: 1. dbstart routine as delivered contains a
bug which prevents the automatic startup from working
(see Metalink for the fix). 2. There are two views
in the catalog.sql script which do not create properly
and should be rerun. They are
v_$dlm_traffic_controller and
gv_$dlm_traffic_controller. 3. Check for invalid
packages which may need to be re-compiled. 4. Make
sure that your oratab is set-up correctly. I seem to
recall having a problem with a missing end colon
preventing automatic startup from working.
In April 2000 we ordered and installed Oracle 8.1.5. We got the cart before the horse and did the install before getting the os patches applied. We attempted to de-install the Oracle software and the 8.1.5 software would not de-install using that installer. That was the extent of our use of 8.1.5. When we called Oracle support, they logged the bug and asked us if we would use 8.1.6 instead. We are not looking at 8.1.7 at this time because we are too close to implementation.
Tina
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