Re: any experiences with Oracle on Windows NT 4.0

Rod Davison wrote:
>
> We currently have a product which runs under windows NT. We
> are considering Oracle as our database. I have heard that the Unix
> version is quite stable, but I wondering if the same holds true for NT
> version. The demo that I saw had several "mysterious" failures
> which went away when the guy "bounced" (stopped and restarted)
> the services.
>
> Any comments from real users would be appreciated. Particularly
> on problems with memory leaks or database daemon or agent crashes
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rod Davison
> Creo Products Inc

Rod,

We have been running Oracle 7.3 on NT for over 6 months. We had many problems with early releases (7.1 & 7.3) of memory leaks, both on the client and server. The server leaks have been fixed, the client leaks (which are much slower) are being worked on by Oracle.

I have seen many postings to this news group praising Oracle NT. I do not believe these people are using Oracle to the degree we are. We have several databases of over 20 gig in size. We have tables that are being inserted and deleted from on the order of 3,000 inserts and deletes an hour, every hour. We are storing blobs in the DB, average size 2K.

We have NOT been able to get the performance out of our databases that I know Oracle is capable of on Unix. And not a day goes by that I don't wish we were on a Unix OS.

Sincerely,

Casey Received on Mon Feb 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CST