RE: DBA Alert - nothing to see here - move along - patch treadmil

I don't know whether it is true or not but Oracle 8.1.7 is already available on Oracle FTP site and with name 8.1.7 and not in any 9i folder. May be Oracle is planning to change its name.

Indy Johal

Thomas Jeff <ThomasJe_at_tce.com> on 09/29/2000 11:30:26 AM

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Subject: RE: DBA Alert - nothing to see here - move along - patch treadmil

Our Oracle rep just told us that 8.1.7 is indeed 9i.

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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L treadmil

Care to elaborate?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Reddy,
> Gautam
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: DBA Alert - nothing to see here - move along - patch
> treadmil
>
>
> 8.1.7 is not 8.2 nor 9i.
>
> Thx
> Gautam
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:56 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> treadmill
>
>
> 9i is being announced -- which from what I've heard is 8.2 which is 8.1.7
> .....
>
>
> >From: Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: Re: DBA Alert - nothing to see here - move along -
> patch treadmill
> >Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:00:25 -0800
> >
> >
> >Sanjeev Singh wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > Please read this very carefully. I was reading a
> article in eweek
> > > magazine(September) on oracle. Following are exact words.
> > >
> > > " Oracle has been quietly alerting customers that systems
> running oracle
> > > 8.1.6 or earlier could find the database control file corrupted if the
> > > server runs for 248 consecutive days without a reboot".
> > >
> > > Is this legit???
> >
> >Maybe the patches issued for Solaris are less frequent, but I'll
> wager that
> >for NT you're patching or upgrading every 60-90 days for the near future.
> >8.1.7 is already out for Solaris - can't be more than 3 months
> away for NT.
> >
> >Isn't 8.2 (Release 3) being annouced at OpenWorld?
> >
> >Pd
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