Re: SEMI-OT: Reinstall DB software as a fix?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:09:15 -0600
Message-ID: <5423794B.1050200_at_gmail.com>
I have had the 'pleasure' of reinstalling a variety of s/w, including Oracle DB Server, on Windows over the years. Five separate occasions that I can recall. Two were related to registry challenges, the others seem to be related to 'media degradation'. I often fret about the quality of h/w and related drivers, esp. network & iSCSI.
On Linux, I believe I have reinstalled Oracle s/w only once. That was due to a hard drive suffering SMART failures. fsck would probably have fixed it (allowing me to copy to another drive), but since /u01 was a separate mount point and separate physical device, I decided to reinstall.
Lately I've been seeing an increase in unstable spinning disk drives. I keep wondering whether there is a conspiracy trying to drive me towards SSD. In any case, it certainly has caused me to carefully review my backup strategies, and put in a request for more modern backup facilities.
/Hans
On 24/09/2014 2:31 PM, Rich Jesse wrote:
> Hey all,
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> I'm having the Micro$oft Month From Hell here. Apparently, one of our new
> production SQueaL Servers is so confusingly hosed that MS Support is
> recommending a complete reinstallation of SQueaL Server software. All of
> the pretty bling surrounding the DBs (e.g. SSIS) randomly fail with
> increasing frequency and severity to the point that our Analysts can't even
> run packages anymore. We've also had "minor" correctable DB corruption
> already on this new server (yes, we've checked for h/w issues).
>
> Has anyone ever had to reinstall Oracle due to severe issues like this?
> Granted, I've purposely not run Oracle on Windows due to the mysterious
> entropy that seems to plague software on all versions of Winders I've had to
> deal with.
>
> Rich
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