Re: ORACLE on RS/6000, instance limit???

kcameron_at_erc.cat.syr.edu (Ken Cameron) writes:
>I just received an upgrade for our AIX system and the first line in the
>'Known Problems, Restrictions....' says
>"Do not attempt to create a multi-instance database."

I believe in this instance (no pun intended) they mean more than one set of oracle processes operating on the SAME tablespaces and control files.

>So what I want to know is why and is this fixed in 7.0?? I need to run
>about 4 instances at once to support our plans (without a total re-think)
>so if someone could provide more detail I'd be happy. Our VMS and even
>DOS products allow it, why not AIX??

Unless AIX really has problems, you should be able to set up multiple databases with different SID's (and presumably the same ORACLE_HOMEs) without any problems.

Since you specified that DOS could do this, I knew you didn't mean the parallel multi-instance effect of VMS, unless you mean IBM Mainframe DOS.

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Hope that helps.
Some volunteers at Oracle frequent this group, perhaps they can answer more fully.

-Andy

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