Re: Oracle 8 on NT not for Large Databases!!!

Hello,
One of our site have 6 * 6gb file for one tablespace ( OK not nice we are doing better ). But it works ....

You will have some trouble for backups that all.

Regards
H.E

In article <7taf1r$afs$1_at_flood.xnet.com>,   "Jason Kratz" <JasonKratz_at_excite.com> wrote:
> The NTFS file system can handle files larger than 2GB just fine.
>
> Jason
>
> David Sisk <davesisk_at_ipass.net> wrote in message
> news:f7fJ3.364$A3.688_at_news.ipass.net...
> > Yes, this bug is fixed in one of the later patchsets for 8.0.5.
Word of
> > advice: don't make your files larger than 4 Gb regardless. I
prefer 2Gb
> as
> > a max, since NT is a 32-bit O/S and Oracle is a 32-bit application
(32
> bits
> > as in 2^32, or 2.1 billion, hint hint...)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > David C. Sisk
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> >
> > GtR wrote in message <37f51f5d.6389878_at_news.xs4all.nl>...
> > >
> > >
> > >We have Oracle 8 running on MS Windows NT.
> > >When the the file for a table space exceeds ~4 Giga bytes Oracle
fails
> > >completely.
> > >
> > >Saying that Oracle can handle Terabyte databases is nonsense!!
> > >
> > >(Or is there a bug-fix or service pack available for this
problem?!?)
> >
> >
>
>

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