Re: NT striping dangerous with Oracle 7 or 8?

From: Eugen Nyffeler <eugen.nyffeler_at_ubs.com>
Date: 1998/03/03
Message-ID: <34FBDB7C.AE75B140@ubs.com>#1/1

bdurrett_at_ccci.org wrote:
<snip>
> Wow, so you are saying that you really can't protect your database from
> losing data? If you lose writes to the redo log and to a data file wouldn't
> you really be sunk? i.e. You couldn't even recover in that case. If you were
> doing a lot of heavy updating and commiting transactions and the power went
> out you could lose a bunch of stuff.
>
> But this is not NT specific I suppose. A Sun or HP unix box would have the
> same issues, correct?

Yeap,
Any system which has no battery buffer will loos data which is only in the
cache at this moment. Any system i know has this problem (Unix, NT, etc.). Received on Tue Mar 03 1998 - 00:00:00 CST