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Re: 64 bits ORACLE database 10Gr2 on LINUX server???

From: Paul Drake <bdbafh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:44:34 -0400
Message-ID: <910046b40605311144j31c9057dj3365ce0dee9217ff@mail.gmail.com>


On 5/31/06, dba1 mcc <mccdba1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> we have DELL 6800 server (Xeon 64 bits) with Redhat As
> 4.0 (64 bits) installed on it.
>
> After I installed ORACLE LINUX 10GR2 64 bits software
> and I found following:
>
> select platform_id, platform_name from v$database;
>
> 13
> Linux 64-bit for AMD
>
> is it typo for ORACLE? does it mean INTEL chip not
> compatible with 64 bit ORACLE?
>
> Thanks.

AMD came out with the x86-64 instruction set long before Intel did - way back when the Itanium chip was where Intel wanted the market to go ... along with HP.
Intel later grudgingly adopted the features, branded as "EM64T".

hth.

Paul

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