Re: NT + Oracle = timebomb?

Dear Patrick,

People's lucks may differ. Actually I do learn some lessons in the past few months, the important issues here, if you are using Oracle 8.0.5 EE on Windows NT 4 SP3, are:
1.Make sure you change the value in the registry of \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORA_SHUTDOWN to "TRUE" (default is "FALSE"). If you don't change it, when you stop the database services or shutdown the server, the default behaviour of Oracle is "SHUTDOWN ABORT", it can lead to data loss.
2.Make sure you upgrade to the patch 8.0.5.2.6. If you don't upgrade it, it will lead to datafile crash when the datafile grows up to 4G in size. Of course, this patch fixes many other things. 3.Earlier we heard that Oracle 8.0.5 doesn't certify Windows NT4 SP4, it can lead to listener failure from time to time. However, Oracle support people don't recently emphasize this point any more, maybe it has been fixed.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Dino
Patrick Fleury <pfleury_at_dutailier.com> wrote in message news:Hc1C5.1468$8n3.263540_at_carnaval.risq.qc.ca...
> Hi!
>
> I heard that installing Oracle under NT was a risky configuration that
> brought quite a few complications. Some people told me that it was
 unstable
> and hard to configure. I'd like to know if someone was using that
> configuration and if those comments were true. I'm not absolutely looking
> for success stories, but in the cases where there were problems, what were
> those problem and how did it impact the system? Thanks in advance for any
> answer
>
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> Patrick Fleury
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Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 03:14:56 CDT