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| 409.1 | Yes and No | MAIL::DUNCANG | Gerry Duncan @KCO | Wed Aug 23 1989 19:13 | 39 |
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>> Oracle V6/TPS on VMS. Has it REALLY been released yet ?
Yes it has except it is called V6 with TPO. I do not know of
the status outside of the USA.
>> Oracle V6/TPS on VAX Ultrix. Any news ?
>> Oracle V6/TPS on Risc Ultrix. Any news ?
Not sure ... will check next week. I have an Oracle contact on
the west coast.
>> Oracle V6/TPS on HP kit. Any news ?
Definately not available for HPUX maybe for MPE.
>> Oracle V6/TPS on ICL machines. I heard the port was on some time
back. Any news ?
Given their port strategy, I would say not available yet. Will
check next week with my source.
>> The reason I ask, is that 'I heard' that Oracle were concentrating
>> so much on the important VAX implementation that they were forgetting
>> about the vanilla Unix implementation.
Actually it appears the other way in the USA. They appear to focusing
their efforts on PC/LAN servers, Sequent and HP Unix, and IBM host
environments. VMS seems to be down the list. (FYI ... Oracle kernel
development IS done on the VAX so VMS is usually first from the
kernel point of view. However, tools and applications are often
NOT first on VMS. My customer was told by Oracle to expect no more
than 1 month delay between a release on Sequent than on VMS.
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| 409.2 | VMS? Only partially | COOKIE::BERENSON | VAX Rdb/VMS Veteran | Wed Aug 23 1989 23:42 | 2 |
| You missed an important point: The 'released' version on VMS doesn't
support VAXclusters. At least as of the last I heard....
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| 409.3 | Trust me, I'm from ORACLE (:-) !!! | SNO78C::BELAKHOV | Oh, my god, it's full of stars. | Thu Aug 24 1989 09:21 | 8 |
| I was talking to a customer today who is running Oracle, he said
that although the TPO option was now available, their new SQL for
TP was not.
I do not know how true this is, but I though it was an interesting
customer comment.
Michael
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| 409.4 | True | QUILL::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Thu Aug 24 1989 17:41 | 5 |
| It is true. TPO is available, but PL/SQL is not. Consequently, you get
row-level locking, but you don't get the new language that drives
better database performance.
---- Michael Booth
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| 409.5 | PL/SQL is Beta | MAIL::DUNCANG | Gerry Duncan @KCO | Fri Aug 25 1989 21:04 | 17 |
| SQL*plus (Oracle's SQL) is available for V6/TPO. My customer has
(taken from Oracle startup logs) "PL/SQL V1.0.21.0.0 Beta" and the
database is "6.0.26.7.0 TPO Production".
V6 does not yet run in a VAXcluster in Oracle SHARED mode. V6 DOES
run in a VAXcluster on a single node. Please be aware that Oracle
will tell the customer that V6 runs in a VAXcluster and leave it
at that. It is left to the customer (or us) to point out that the
database CANNOT be accessed from two update programs on different
nodes (eg SHARED mode).
-- gerry
Finally, don't be fooled here. Even without PL/SQL, the customer
will still get row level locking with V6/TPO. So since programs
are not locking each other out with table locks, the performance
is naturally better with TPO and the resultant row level locks.
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