Guys

New Cert advisory has been issued about issues with Oracle (8 & 9)

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-08.html

Check it out if you run oracle


Jeff

 

Almost as many bugs as a Micro$oft product. Thinking about it, nothing like as many

 

Behave or it'll get moved to muppets

 

I find on average 1 bug a day on Oracle 8i. Oracle 8 and 7 were far more stable IMHO.

I found a nice *cough* function in the Management server when using OEM on 9i the other day. Default config now pings the agents on client databases every 60 seconds, so if you have ISDN lines, they never drop = BIG ISDN phone bill!

It isnt documented in the instalation docs, just in the tuning docs. You cant change it using the gui front ends, you have to find a config file and edit that. You cant switch it off either, you can only modify it to ping less often. You can get round it by manually configuring the TNS on the management server but to do that, unlike previous versions, you have to switch off all remote server agents first, try configing automatically which takes ages, wait for it to fail, then it gives you the manual config option. It's crap! LOL