Re: ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure

From: Chuck <chuckh_at_softhome.net>
Date: 15 Nov 2002 15:00:13 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns92C765C3587C5chuckhsofthomenet@130.133.1.4>

spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow (Ed Stevens) wrote in news:3dd4f73d.48162894_at_ausnews.austin.ibm.com:

> Comments embedded . . .
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:46:12 +0200, Billy Verreynne
> <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote:
>

>>Ed Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> Platform:  Oracle SE 8.0.5.2 on NT4 Advanced server
>>
>>Always a good idea to run the latest 8.x Ed - there are many bugs
>>fixed in 8.1.7.4 patch set. 
>>

> Absolutely agreed. All of our new stuff is coming up under 8.1.7.4
> and we are in the process of upgrading the old stuff. Have completed
> all test databases and will be doing 4 servers of prod databases by
> the end of January.

Great idea but how do you keep up with the releases in reality when you are supporting 30 or 40 production databases? Doing an upgrade under those circumstances is no trivial task! And how do you know which "latest release" to apply and which to not. If I had a dollar for every time OTS told me to upgrade to the latest release only to find that release is less stable and introduces worse bugs than the original one, I could buy everyone here dinner. I take the canned "upgade fixes everything" response from them with a grain of salt. Unfortunately that's the answer I get 90% of the time. Received on Fri Nov 15 2002 - 09:00:13 CST