Re: Oracle 8 on Novell workable?

Hi,
I'm trying to develop on novell using 8.x

it goes in smoothly as long as you follow the docs.

1.You must turn off sub allocation & compression, atleast in the directory that the oracle is installed. 2. for development purposes you can get a "free" 5 user version from novell.
3. most anything you write on novell should port to other oracle platforms.

4. I have seen corruption of oracle runnig under some versions of linux which is why i'm on novell, (also I cannot be doing with messing about setting up an n.t server)

I have one problem
 That i cannot seem to resolve using multiple network cards in the same server using tcp/ip.

In that the oracle net8 , returns the ip address of the "private" network address to a client on the "public" net, resulting in a connection failure.

steve

Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com> wrote:

> My current employer has NT, Novell and Solaris servers with databses
> running on all three types. I'm not running any of the Oracle 8 databases
> on Novell, just the Oracle 7s. The Novell servers do as well as any of the
> others but our databases are not particularly large. The biggest Novell
> database is only 30G.
> However, I have noticed that when I call Oracle support there are only a
> few of the support people who have ever actually worked with Novell. And I
> suspect that UNIX and NT account for the bulk of Oracle's development
> efforts.
> On the plus side, Novell is a simple operating system to work with.
>
> Van
>
> Circe Tsui <circetsui_at_email.msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eWXaOoNK$GA.330_at_cpmsnbbsa02...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to have some expert advice on Oracle 8 running on a novell
> box.
> > We are going to develop a c/s application using Oracle 8 and VB. Our
> current
> > network environment is on Novell. But we've heard that Oracle doesn't work
> > well with Novell. Is that true? What are the potential problems? Should we
> > switch to NT before it is too late?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Circe
> > circetsui_at_msn.com
> >
> >
Received on Mon Nov 08 1999 - 04:43:27 CST