Oracle (not Rdb) database

[Jesse, Rich]

Hi Mike,

While I haven't yet tested or upgraded our Oracle DBs on OpenVMS yet (still
8.0.6), I have seen no difference in accessing Oracle 8.1.7 from PH 8.13.D1
on HP/UX 11.0 (yes, the dreaded QUICK memory leak version) from any of the
"supported" Oracle versions in our HP test environment.  I'm not sure about
the 7.10 version on OpenVMS, however...

And you will want to confirm the v7.3 with Oracle for certification.  That
one could potentially cause problems.  It *shouldn't*, but *could*.  :)  If
you have MetaLink (included with Oracle metals support), there is a Midrange
forum there with most of the traffic being about VMS.

Good luck!  Long live OpenVMS, despite Oracle's best attempts at subverting
the use of logicals...  :)

Rich Jesse                          System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse@qtiworld.com             Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
(Oracle 7.3.4 - 8.1.7, HP/UX 10.20 - 11.0, OpenVMS v6.2 - 7.2-1,
Winders-Freakin-2000)

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Chalenburg [mailto:chalenburg@harding.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:07
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Oracle (not Rdb) database


Good morning,

Given the current thread on Rdb, I'd like to get advice on a separate but
related topic.

We are running an Alpha cluster with VMS 7.2-1 (soon to be 7.3) and
Powerhouse 7.10F2.  After years of home grown software, about 95% in
Powerhouse, we are moving to a 3rd party vendor for all of our applications.
We are down to two vendors and the similarity is that they both run on
Oracle 8.1.7 (not Rdb).  We intend to run the database server portion on the
VMS cluster.

There are a few of our applications that will not be replaced by the 3rd
party product.  Also it would be very helpful to be able to modify some of
our applications to look at the Oracle database.  Is any of this feasible?
What kinds of pitfalls are there?  I had understood that we would be able to
use Powerhouse to access the Oracle database.  Is that correct?

Thanks for your help.

Mike