Re: NT striping dangerous with Oracle 7 or 8?

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:37:35 -0500, "Uday Bikkasani" <udayb_at_mindspring.com> wrote: Hi,

battery backups are always dangerous. Do you know wehter after 3 years your batteries still have the capacity to do their work? turn on write through and you're save. OK, this may lead to performance loss, but it's better than loosing db-consistency.

>NT striping is always dangerous. Try the Raid striping at the hardware
>level. Also make sure that you have battery backups on the raid controllers.
>
>If power is lost there are many points of failure even if make sure that you
>have battery backups. Make sure you have a good backup strategy implemented.
>
>uday
>
>bdurrett_at_ccci.org wrote in message <6d6l3i$ema$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>>I have been told that it is dangerous to use NT striping with Oracle on NT
>>4.0. This person told us that NT buffers some Oracle writes in memory and
 if
>>the server is turned off at the wrong time the data could be corrupted. I
>>find this hard to believe, but I wanted to post this question just to be
 sure.
>>Is there a problem using NT striping and oracle 7 or 8 server?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Bobby Durrett
>>
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