Re: 64bit Oracle 8i

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:00:08 -0000, "Raymond Sebuwufu" <sleepinglion40_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>our project is building a system that is intending to use a Sun solaris
>E10000 runing UNIX.
>Now I believe this is a 64bit machine and the problem we have encountered is
>the software
>we were writing was specifically designed as 64bit thus we intended on using
>a 64bit version
>of Oracle.
>
>Much to our horror, it seem the 64bit version of Oracle is not available
>even if it is refered to on their
>website. ORACLE also cannot give us a concrete release date.
>
>1. Does anyone have any ideas of how we can get around this problem. (We've
>thought about using different databases
> but this change is not desirable. Plus we've thought about building a
>conversion API layer between a 32bit version of
> oracle which allows the 64bit processes to access and this is not
>desirable as well. The system we are building is
> realtime and is expected to have very high performance
>
>2. Has anyone encountered this problem before and managed to resolve it.
>What was your solution
>3. Does anyone have any other useful additions/suggestions...etc that can
>help
>
>
>Please reply soon if you have anything useful that can help.
>
>Regards
>
>Raymond
>

How come my current customer is running Oracle 64bit on Solaris 64bit. Am I dreaming?

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 11:31:51 CST