Oracle (not Rdb) database

[Alex Coker]

You will not be able to access Oracle 8.1.7 with your current PH7.10F2,
you'll need to migrate to PH8.20D6. On the Oracle side, 8.1.7 works on VMS,
but there are significant bugs, especially with running pre-spawned
listeners. PH8.20D6 (so far) cannot connect to Oracle with a local
connection, instead it uses the TCP/IP (TNS) to connect and is causing
performance issues.

Oracle 8.1.7 is a tier 3 product and support from Oracle is less than what
one would expect.

Alex




Mike Chalenburg <chalenburg@harding.edu>@cube.swau.edu on 06/21/2001
11:07:08 AM

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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

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