Re: Hmmm.... Oracle from vax to alpha
Date: 20 Jan 1995 10:12:15 GMT
Message-ID: <3fo29v$csj_at_dfw.net>
In article <3fhapk$o04_at_peavax.eng.pko.dec.com>, soley_at_trop32.enet.dec.com says...
>
>In article <henry_Okeeffe.12.00100331_at_inmarsat.org> henry_Okeeffe@inmarsat.org (Henry O'
Keeffe) writes:
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>>I'm about to migrate an entire Oracle 7 system from Vax/VMS 5.4 to
>>Alpha/OpenVMS 6.1. This should be a piece of cake. I'll just recreate the
>>directory structure, and recompile all the pro*c and oracle code.
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>>I'll copy over all the .com files, tweak them and hey presto. Wow! I might
>>be able to do a DECnet copy of the database files themselves.
We've been through that 8 times over the past two years, once splitting one database into
three. The good part was that the import of the database is usually faster than the export.
Oracle on AXP seems to be stable and fast, but it takes up a lot of memory. Disk I/O gets
to be a bottleneck since the CPU is fast enough to cause I/O queues. Buy more disks and lots
of memory. As ususal, there are a miriad of import/export problems; seems like when two get
fixed, two more show up.
(P.S, in moving from a vax6220 to an axp7610, reports ran 10x faster. The new 2100's are even
faster and are relatively inexpensive.
-- Bob King - rking_at_dfw.net business ph. - (817) 551-8223Received on Fri Jan 20 1995 - 11:12:15 CET