RE: Heads up on nasty bug on NT

Anita,  

 Thank you so much for this info.    

 Cheers!
- Kirti

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. Bardeen [SMTP:abardeen1_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:56 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Heads up on nasty bug on NT
>
> Hi all!
>
> Just a warning for those of you running Oracle on NT.
>
> There's an extremely nasty bug specific to 8.1.6/8.1.7
> on NT/Win2K (not sure if it affects 8.1.5) where a
> datafile that is resize or autoextended exactly on a
> 4GB boundary cannot be resized. Bug 1668488.
>
> Options:
>
> 1. PITR prior to when the datafile extended
>
> 2. Force the db open (requires full db export and
> rebuild).
>
> 3. Clone a subset of the db containing the corrupted
> datafile(s), force it open, export affected
> tablespaces and import them into the original db.
>
> 4. Drop the corrupted datafiles to open the db and
> then drop the tablespace to which the datafiles
> belong.
>
> Options 2 & 3 can result in logical corruption as
> there's no way to rollback any uncommitted
> transactions that have already been forced to disk.
>
> Bug is not fixed in 8.1.6; it's scheduled for the
> 8.1.7.2 patchset.
>
> Those of you with autoextend on your datafiles should
> modify the maxsize to be less than 4GB or turn off
> autoextend.
>
> HTH,
>
> -- Anita
>
>
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