Re: OpenVMS and Oracle

In article: <4a4uma$dqq_at_pong.lasc.lockheed.com> Alan Bozof <g596101_at_lg3vm.lasc.lockheed.com> writes:
>
> We are currently running OpenVMS 6.2 on a Dec Alpha 8440 with our
> Oracle RDBMS version at 7.0.16.6. We were told by someone from
> Oracle not to run this combination of operating system and Oracle
> version together because of possible data corruption.
> We were then told by our third party vendor, which gave us our Run-time
> version of Oracle, that they have not experienced any problems with
> running OpenVMS 6.2 and Oracle 7.0.16.6 together.
>

What Oracle may have meant is that 7.0.16 is not certified to run on OpenVMS 6.2; AFAIK only V7.1.5 has been *completely* tested for this version of the o/s.

I believe this means that you can try running V7.0.16 on OpenVMS6.2 but if you *do* run into any problems Oracle can deny responsibility as they have not yet certified this combination.

It may be best to get this confirmed by someone at Oracle directly - if you are unlucky enough to have problems will your vendor bail you out?!?!

My recommendation would be to upgrade to 7.1.5

Regards,

Pete

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