Re: 64bit Oracle 8i

Raymond Sebuwufu wrote:

> Hi,
> our project is building a system that is intending to use a Sun solaris
> E10000 runing UNIX.
>

We've being using the 64 bit Version of oracle 8i r3 (8.1.7) on solaris 7 on sun e10k for some months (in the period 4/2000-1/2001 we've used the 8.1.6 version also 64 bit). I think the statement you've been said is some kind of confusion. Which version of Unix (probably Solaris) do you run ?

> 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
  Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 17:51:04 CST