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Re: NT striping dangerous with Oracle 7 or 8?

From: Steve Phelan <stevep_at_XXnospamXX.toneline.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1998/03/03
Message-ID: <888936042.21973.0.nnrp-01.c2de712e@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1

I sorta lost with the reasoning here, because you'd still be buggered when the battery backup ran out... OK, you may have warning alarms, etc., but in the middle of the night you might not be there to hear them.

Surely a 'write through cache' is the only real solution?

Steve Phelan.

Eugen Nyffeler wrote in message <34FBDB7C.AE75B140_at_ubs.com>...
>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

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