URGENT : Oracle V7 with Parallel Query Option

From: Johan Hermans <jhermans_at_INnet.be>
Date: 14 Nov 1994 22:48:43 GMT
Message-ID: <3a8pgb$gpt_at_news.INbe.net>

Hello,

I'm looking for somebody which has experience with Oracle V7 with the Parallel Query Option, prefably on an Digital OSF/1 Multi-Processor (with 4 Alpha-cpus).

I'm currently working for the EEC in Brussels, and we have ordered one of these beasts. But delivery has been delayed
(as usual), and we are getting confusing explanations for this
delay. Depending on the spokeperson (official and unofficial), it's to be blamed to the backlog at DEC, to problems with the operation system, with the Alphas or with the parallel query option for Oracle V7. DEC and Oracle officials are trying to provide us with a solution, but this would probably be a slower machine (1 cpu), without the PQO. This won't be good news for my project, because we really need to have a very fast database-server by the end of this month [the fact that Sweden decided to join the European Union yesterday, didn't help much ;-) ] We have done a lot of tests on this configuration
(and on others from other manufacturers) and this was
definetly the best. But it seems that DEC and/or Oracle are not able anymore to deliver this machine (although they swore that it was not beta-software). All the other manufacturers had only beta software, or were just to slow. [ Half of them were not able to install Oracle correctly BTW ;-() ]

Has somebody experience with this particular configuration ? Or with any Oracle V7 with the parallel query option ? Does it really work ? And with any version of Oracle on a Multi-processor ? Is it worthwile for *your* application
(we're not calculting SPECints or playing Tetris here)

Thanks for anybody who can help.

• jo

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