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Re: Having two versions of Oracle 8 on the same Unix box.

From: Barry <odbc_at_mailexcite.com>
Date: 28 May 1999 08:57:51 +1000
Message-ID: <01bea894$1d79cba0$3af893cb@dba>

Benoît Gilon <bgilon_at_filnet.fr> wrote in article <51b7cf$17e21.21d_at_filnet.fr>...
> Hello,

SNIP
> Is this possible to have two instances of Oracle running on the same
node,
> each being run on
> a specific DBMS system (two installations of Oracle each having its own
> separate filesystem)?

YES, make sure you have 2 Oracle Homes eg /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.4
/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5
> If yes, what are the performance issues (I guess that the coexistence of
two
> Oracle DMS systems will
> eat more memory ressources than if only one Oracle install has to service
> both instances (eg. shared libraries)).
Having 2 versions of the software should only require more disk space. Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 17:57:51 CDT

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