I am running 7.3.2.3.14 on NT 4 sp3 and it has been running without any
problems at all. Anything below 7.3.2.3.8 didn't work very well at all for
us: 7.1 crashed 4 times a day, 7.2 once a week, 7.3.2.2.1 every 14 days.
--
Terry Dykstra [TeamPS]
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
Brett Neumeier <random_at_nospam.com> wrote in article
<6h2o09$dje$1_at_eve.enteract.com>...
> Art <amarshall_at_idcomm.com> wrote:
> > We are deciding which operating system on which to place an Oracle
> > Transparent Gateway Server. Since it will be servicing multiple
databases,
> > it must have high availability.
>
> That is the critical point: "It must have high availability."
>
> > What are the issues and your points of view concerning a choice between
the
> > two operating systems? [..]
>
> If high availability is a core requirement, then issues of cost
> are secondary. My site has converted from UNIX (on Alpha) to NT
> (on Compaq) servers for our Oracle7 databases, both 7.2 and 7.3.
>
> Since 12 May 1997 there have been an average (arithmetic mean) of
> 1.02 unscheduled database outages per day, across eleven servers.
>
> There has never been a contiguous seven-day period without an
> unscheduled database outage.
>
> "Unscheduled outages" include database crashes, OS crashes, and
> other failures (e.g. SQL*Net listener no longer working) which
> could only be corrected by shutting down Oracle and/or the NT
> server as a whole.
>
> It is tempting, I know, to suspect that these failures are the
> result of a low level of expertise at the OS or Oracle level. I
> can only say that we have several aggregate DBA-decades of
> experience on site, and roughly the same level of experience with
> NT administration. (I don't know exactly how many MCSEs we have
> on site at the moment, sorry.)
>
> If high availability is a requirement for your environment, I
> suggest you use a reliable operating system (e.g. Solaris) and
> find a good system administrator to keep it working well.
>
> -bn
> (the domain is really "enteract.com")
>
Received on Wed Apr 15 1998 - 14:11:04 CDT
