11 May
Oracle v7 bad blocks, disk capacity and other things
Been a while, folks. Busy as heck here.
A coupla weeks ago we found that one of our interim reporting databases, left over from a third party venture a few years ago, was playing up. A few ODBC Access reports were erroring off with a strange error message.
After a lot of crystal ball gazing we found the problem. A very old v7.3 database in an equally old Windows NT4 server had a bad block in