Re: HP/UX and Oracle Server 7.1.4

Peter Grant (grant_at_devbn1.triumf.ca) wrote:
> I've had quite a week with HP/UX 9.x and Oracle Server 7.1.4 all right.
 

> Has anyone else out there had real problems? In my case, we encountered
> a known Oracle bug which ended up corrupting the database. Wiping it clean
> and starting over was the only suggestion Tech Support had. It's been seven
> days now putting it all back together, encountering one after another bug
> (all showing up as internal errors, many having to to do with corrupt indexes,
> for whatever reason). Oracle says they're seen the index problems before,
> but have never been able to reproduce it. We've encountered it three or four
> times in the past week. The project is now delayed by over a week due to all
> of this excitement. Having the trace files sent to California is little help
> at this point.
 

> Dropping and recreating the indexes on our tables takes about 12 hours on
> our I50 - there's about 3GB of data and indexes in total so far.
 

> I just received 7.1.6.2.0 today, and am thinking that I should probably just
> put it in (as soon as the last table population process finishes - a 72 hour
> job which is half way).
 

> Are other HP/UX users using 7.1.6 successfully?

Peter,

	Yes, we are. I also a problem with 7.1.4 dealing with TUXEDO/XA transactons.
	We were told that, oh, yes all of our XA customers on going to 7.1.6!!
		parris geiser