Re: 64bit Oracle 8i

64-bit 8.1.6 for Solaris has been avaible for months.

However, for us, we needed either 8.1.7 for the 8.1.6.1 patchset due to a bug having to do with corrupted indexes on snapshot tables.

In Canada we've been told that 8.1.7 won't be available until September 2001.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:51:04 GMT, Alexander Penev <penev_at_cska.net> wrote:

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>Raymond Sebuwufu wrote:
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>> 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 Fri Mar 30 2001 - 15:56:36 CST