Re: NT SP4 with Oracle 7.3.2.3.1

From: Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:51:41 -0700
Message-ID: <3725DD0D.EC846C8A@us.oracle.com>

Kenny

Microsoft changed some things in the TCP/IP space with SP4. There are patches available from Oracle for the things this affected (the listener, OEM, Fail Safe, OAS from memory), but the version you're on is unsupported, so I don't know whether the patches were backported to this release. You'd need to check that with Support.

As far as your Y2K question is concerned, somewhere on the Oracle web page is information on Y2K issues. I can't remember where it is, bus basically what it boils down to is that the information on the page says that currently supported Oracle versions are Y2K compliant. The currently supported versions are 7.3.4 (some platforms are supported for earlier releases, mainly where 7.3.4 didn't come out - NT isn't one of those), 8.0 and 8.1.

That doesn't mean that the earlier releases were NOT Y2K compliant. Due to the way Oracle stores dates internally, the RDBMS has never had an issue with Y2K, but the applications you write that run on top of Oracle may not be.

However, here's the bottom line. If there are any bugs that do cause Y2K problems in releases earlier than those officially supported now, tough - you're on your own. Patches are only released for those versions that are currently supported.

HTH. Pete

Kenny Leow wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently my database 7.3.2.3.1 is running on NT 4.0 SP3. Micorsoft had
> adviced to install SP4 onto their NT 4.0 server in order to be Y2K
> compliance. Will it affect my Oracle database ? Secondly, is my Oracle
> database will be Y2K ready or compliance after I had installed SP4.
>
> Please advice.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Kenny

Regards

Pete

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