Re: 8.1.5.vs 8.1.6

<abcdba_at_direct.ca> wrote in message
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> Greetings all,
>
> I'm interested in comments about the stability / functionality /
> performance issues of either 8.1.5 and / or 8.1.6 along with any
> patches.

I'm sorry not to have read the rest of your post, but frankly, I don't need to. 8.1.5 is a dog of a product that is clearly the first release of a new version. It is, shall we say, "feature laden" -and not always the features that you (or indeed Oracle) would expect.

8.1.6 everytime, and don't even think about it.

I'll give you just one example from personal experience: configuring for automatic Instance registration with the Listener for 8.1.5: if there are three spaces and then an open bracket one one particular line in the .ora file, it won't register. If there are 4, it will. In 8.1.6, the number of spaces is immaterial.

That kind of pernicketyness I can't cope with, I'm afraid.

Regards
HJR
>
> Our current setup is multiple 7.3.4 instances on NT 4 servers and are
> about to install an updated (3rd party) product on a new server (still
> NT 4) and it requires us to use Oracle 8i. Eventually we'll be
> upgrading this (and other servers) to Windows 2000, but probably not
> until later this year.
>
> The third party application runs pretty much as a data repository,
> with the majority of Oracle activity in reads. I'm getting about
> 1/10th the activity on the Indexes vs the tables, so I don't think
> I'll get too much more out of tuning there (although this is still
> under 7.3.4 with the previous version of the application, and I'll
> have to re-tune this once we get the production environment fully
> running).
>
> Under peak usage we have about 200 users per database, 90% of which do
> read-only tasks, the other 10% are about 75% write activity. The
> database runs under 1 GB while associated meta files are in the 20 -
> 50 GB range.
>
> We run Dual 866's with 1 GB RAM, 3 physical drives (either RAID 5 or
> Mirror). So far I've been able to isolate most of the reads and writes
> and split the datafiles and other logfiles, applications etc across
> the drives, but I don't have enough information on the versions and
> patches of Oracle itself. I am also going to re-assess the drive
> configuration (RAID vs Mirror and number of disks).
>
> Any comments / suggestions etc. welcome.
>
> (Please no comments / suggestions on Unix vs NT as I do not have any
> options on the OS at this point).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brad
> (to reply remove abc)
Received on Mon Jan 22 2001 - 01:40:57 CST