Re: Oracle 8 on NT not for Large Databases!!!

From: David Sisk <davesisk_at_ipass.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 23:53:27 -0400
Message-ID: <f7fJ3.364$A3.688@news.ipass.net>

Yes, this bug is fixed in one of the later patchsets for 8.0.5. Word of advice: don't make your files larger than 4 Gb regardless. I prefer 2Gb as a max, since NT is a 32-bit O/S and Oracle is a 32-bit application (32 bits as in 2^32, or 2.1 billion, hint hint...)

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GtR wrote in message <37f51f5d.6389878_at_news.xs4all.nl>...
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>We have Oracle 8 running on MS Windows NT.
>When the the file for a table space exceeds ~4 Giga bytes Oracle fails
>completely.
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>Saying that Oracle can handle Terabyte databases is nonsense!!
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>(Or is there a bug-fix or service pack available for this problem?!?)
Received on Fri Oct 01 1999 - 22:53:27 CDT