Re: Oracle on Netware
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 23:04:27 GMT
Message-ID: <James.Lawrence.8.00121387_at_epamail.epa.gov>
In article <39d3hi$nhn_at_newsgate.dircon.co.uk> hharriso_at_tdc.dircon.co.uk (Henry Harrison) writes:
>From: hharriso_at_tdc.dircon.co.uk (Henry Harrison)
>Subject: Re: Oracle on Netware
>Date: 4 Nov 1994 10:48:18 GMT
>Sue Brauer (jcs_at_onramp.net) wrote:
>: Does anyone out there run Oracle 7 on a Novell Netware? Is this not a normal
>: thing or what? I can't seem to find anyone doing it, if there are people out
>: there, where are they and how long have they been doing it? Thanks.
>Hi. Yes, we run Oracle 7 on Netware 3.12. We're currently running
>7.0.16.6.0 and it's all on a Compaq Proliant with a Pentium 66 and 128 M
>of RAM.
>When it's working, it works fine and performance is good - in a
>completely unscientific comparison it returned a query in 2/3 the time of
>one of our instances on a Sun server. This doesn't really mean too much
>tho because I don't know too much about the config of the Sun.
>The SPX listener process is fine, and very convenient in not needing IP,
>but there's also a TCP/IP listener and this works well too.
>HOWEVER there are some stability issues, and because it's Netware, these
>are usually fatal...The major defect in this area is that the cost-based
>optimiser doesn't work and usually abends the server. Switch cost-based
>optimisation off and you're ok. The problem is supposed to be fixed when
>they release 7.1 for NW.
Everybody's been having probs with the cost based optimizer so that's not a netware specific issue. Buit you're right about the fatal part, netware doesn't intercept bugs at all as best I can tell.
We have been running Oracle 7 on netware 3.11/IBM 95 for a couple years now fairly successfully. Don't run anything else on the server and it will help the stability issues.
>There are other stability issues as well, and the problems seem to be at
>a pretty low level - we've had to install about a million patches because
>of Oracle<->NW<->Compaq Proliant interop problems.
>Bottom line: stability is an issue, but when it works, it works well.
>Henry Harrison
>*These are private opinions and do not represent the opinions of my employer*
Received on Fri Nov 11 1994 - 00:04:27 CET