Re: Oracle 8.1 on 2000 server

From: mmccaws2 <mmccaws_at_comcast.net>
Date: 18 Jan 2007 19:54:43 -0800
Message-ID: <1169178883.691494.171600@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>

bdbafh wrote:
> mmccaws2 wrote:
> > Oracle 8.1 is installed as part of my app on Windows 2000 server. Fast
> > question is should the app and oracle be stopped when applying patches
> > to Windows 2000 server? My concern is that the patching process may
> > interupt Oracle services.
> >
> >
> > Mike
>
> Sometimes I wish that I could just sit back on 8.1.7.4.x on w2k and not
> have to deal with issues like negative elapsed values for wait events
> on x86-64 capable processors on w2k3 r2 and ora-7445s on updates
> against instead of triggers on 10.2 that necessitate setting
> optimizer_features_enable=10.1.0 as a work-around.
>
> Oh yeah, and issues with cursor_sharing != 'exact' when upgrading to
> 10.2. I wouldn't want to forget that.
>
> But where is the fun in avoiding all that?
>
> I've always stopped the oracle services prior to applying OS hotfixes
> and Oracle patchsets, patches (to that home).
>
> -bdbafh
>
> "its fixed in 11.1.0"

Thanks everyone. Received on Thu Jan 18 2007 - 21:54:43 CST