Re: Pentium bug and Oracle

jschmidt_at_connect.net wrote:

: In article <12a.8253.905_at_compudata.com>,
: <barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com> writes:
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: > Subject: Pentium bug and Oracle
: > From: barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com (Barry Roomberg)
: > Message-ID: <12a.8253.905_at_compudata.com>
: > References: <3bnuls$olh_at_crcnis3.unl.edu>
: > Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1994 12:16:00 -0500
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: > -> For folks running Oracle on a Pentium system (such as the
 NCR/AT&T
: > -> 3000 series), is there any reason to be concerned about
 Intel's
: > -> Pentium FPDIV bug?
: >
: > Don't know, but please post any followups for the rest of us.
: > I'm just moving to Pentium after 486, and am seeing a 7 to 1
: > speed increase on my new system. I'd hate to find out I
: > can't use it!
: >
: >
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: I am not concerned with ORACLE itself. I suspect there is minimal
: floating point instruction use within the database engine itself,
: refer to your DBA guide, internal representation of numbers and
: dates and you will see that numeric data manipulation is
: integer based internally, even for floating point numbers.

Someone from the other newsgroup mentioned that database search may require some kind of floating point arithmetic internally, any truth about this?

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