Re: Must reboot before 248 days??

From: Rick Hibling <rhibling_at_ozemail.com.au>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 05:45:51 GMT
Message-ID: <39c5abd4.288308703@news.ozemail.com.au>

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:25:33 GMT, dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com wrote:

>The eWEEK (formerly PCWeek) column Spenser F. Katt, dated 9/10/00,
>available at:
>http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2625949,00.html
>
>Reports that Oracle database versions "8.1.6 or earlier" could corrupt
>the control file if the database runs for more than 248 consecutive
>days without a server reboot. The workaround is to reboot the server
>before it reaches this many days.
>
>This sounds serious. Does anyone know anything about this?
>
>
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>Before you buy.

This is a load of shoemakers.

We run 24x7 on Solaris and if the server goes down on this BUSINESS CRITICAL machine we lose a ton of wonga. I don't think that we would still be using Sun if this problem existed.

L8R Received on Mon Sep 18 2000 - 00:45:51 CDT