Re: NT: Oracle 7.3.4 vs. Oracle 8.04

I feel that Oracle support should only have advised Oracle8 in your situation if they are sure that the cause of the ORA-600 is fixed in 8.0.4, its first argument will be the key.

Regards
David Russell

Allan Nelson wrote in message <35C2C31F.B580781B_at_austin360.com>...
>Tom Pall wrote:
>
>> I have a high visibility small database running under Oracle 7.3.4 which
>> has been encountering ORA-0600. While giving us the patch, Oracle
>> suggested going to Oracle 8 to correct the problem.
>>
>> Just how stable and reliable is Oracle 8.04 on NT?
>
> Oh, about as stable as any other high demand application on NT. I run
>about three large instances on several servers all at 4.0 with SP3. I
>guess I lose about 1 instance a week due to things like the listner
>branching and linking with free space, lockup of the GUI and consequent
>need to reboot the server.
>NT is an evolving environment and Oracle 8 is fairly new, so some of this I
>guess is inevitable. I sure wish however, that this project was on UNIX
>though. I have instances over there that I haven't had to shut down for
>over a year. I should mention thought that I have a lot of UNIX experience
>and compartively little NT experience.
>
Received on Sat Aug 01 1998 - 19:16:59 CDT