Re: Oracle 7.3.x.x on NT4

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:17:24 +0000, Paul Brewer <paulb_at_pbrewer.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <01bd4cb0$0da4c860$0d12d88f_at_HI2_LB7_TN.health.sa.gov.au>, T
>Nguyen <nguyen.thanh_at_health.sa.gov.au> writes
>>Hi experts,
>>We are running Oracle Workgroup 7.3.2.2.1 and believe that this version is
>>not a stable one on NT4 (has bugs and sucks up memory). We have run a patch
>>to bring it up to 7.x.x.14 but if we could do it bettter we would ....
>>We would like to know which version in the 7.3.x.x is the most reliable one
>>to run on NT4 so we can upgrade to the right version. Is 7.3.3 the one ?
>>If your site is having a smooth running version of Oracle on NT then please
>>drop us a line. Should we consider Oracle 8 ?
>>I would appreciate any advice.
>>TIA
>We had some memory leaks and other issues with 7.3.2 (NT4 Build 1381 SP
>zero), all of which disappeared with 7.3.3.0.0, and yes, I would
>certainly say 7.3.3 is the one - so far; although we do still have one
>unresolved problem (relating to grants on views containing user-defined
>functions, but we are able to work around that one).
>I am about to start considering Oracle8, but plan a *very* thorough test
>before implementing it live (then again I am the sort of reactionary who
>always tends to wait for the 'point-one' version of any software).
>
>HTH. Good luck.
>
>P.S. By the way, does anyone know why the service now appears to hold
>the datafiles open even after a shutdown? This didn't happen with
>earlier incarnations on NT. It stops us doing cold backups to tape
>(although we can do cross-disk copies). We could work around this by
>doing 'net stop OracleService<sid>' after the shutdown but I don't feel
>entirely comfortable with that.

Are you sure that this is caused by oracle? We encounter the same problem (backup does well, compare fails) and I thought the reason was an upgrade on Arcserve's 6.0 build 516.

>
>P.P.S What is the NT equivalent of 'sync' (i.e. flush cached disk writes
>at OS level)?
>--
>Paul Brewer

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