[THIN] Re: Using oracle databse with PS4. Will oracle continue to be supported ?

Hi Jeff,
 
The Oracle client runs fine on x64. Sounds like it's Citrix that dropped
the ball, not Oracle. 
 
regards,
 
Rick
 
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems

 
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Monday, 27 February 2006 2:05 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Using oracle databse with PS4. Will oracle continue
to be supported ?



        Wow, when Citrix decides to make a mistake they really grab the
bull by the horns.  what possible reason would they have for not support
Citrix.  Is it a case of Oracle not having windows 64-bit compatibility
yet?
         
        Jeff
        
         
        On 2/26/06, Rick Mack <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

                Hi,
                
                Mathew Glenn posted the following on the Citrix support
forum:
                
                Re: x64 with Oracle database 
                Posted: Feb 6, 2006 9:33 PM
                
                I've done a bunch of testing on this before reading that
little footnote in the readme (I feel dumb). What I found is basically,
nothing Oracle works for a datastore using MPS x64. Here are my results:

                
                Note: Existing farm, other servers with mps 4 are
connecting using Oracle 10.1 client just fine to the same datastore
database. This server is being configured identically.
                
                Oracle 10.2 64 bit client: MPS 4 x64 install does not
see the Oracle client as an option (because the IMA services in MPS x64
are actually 32 bit, and hence talk to 32 bit ODBC, so it can't see a 64
bit client). "DSMAINT config /user:blah /pwd:blah /dsn:blah" gives an
error: "cannot connect to datastore". I had to manually create the DSN
since the install didn't see Oracle. 
                
                Oracle 10.2 32 bit client: MPS 4 x64 install allows you
to configure for an Oracle datastore, but when starting the IMA service
at the end of the install, you receive the error: "cannot connect to
datastore".. 
                
                "DSMAINT config /user:blah /pwd:blah /dsn:blah" gives an
error: "cannot connect to datastore".
                
                Oracle 10.1 32 bit client: Same as "Oracle 10.2 32 bit
client".
                Oracle 9.2 32 bit client: Same as "Oracle 10.2 32 bit
client".
                
                So it appears that it indeed does not work. If I find a
way to get around this, I'll post a reply. My guess is that Citrix will
probably have a patch soon that enables this, since there are many
customers using Oracle for a datastore. 
                
                regards,
                
                Rick
                
                Ulrich Mack
                Volante Systems
                
                
                ________________________________
                
                From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ruben
Spruijt 
                Sent: Sun 26/02/2006 18:39
                To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Subject: [THIN] Re: Using oracle databse with PS4. Will
oracle continue to be supported ?
                
                
                
                Hi,
                
                
                
                It this question not in relation with Citrix PS 4.0 for
Windows Server 2003 x64 ?.
                
                In the readme file is stated no Oracle support..
                
                
                
                Ruben
                
                
                
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                From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Pitsch
                Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:15 AM 
                To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Subject: [THIN] Re: Using oracle databse with PS4. Will
oracle continue to be supported ?
                
                
                
                First I've heard of Oracle being removed.  I would find
that highly suspect unless it came from summit solution last month.
Oracle is one (if not the) largest database systems in the world.  If
anything, DB2 would be removed far sooner than Oracle. 
                
                
                
                Jeff
                
                
                
                On 2/25/06, Andy <andysideas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
                
                I heard that Citrix are removing oracle support. I can't
figure what to search for to validate this either way. 
                
                
                
                Is anyone here using Oracle databse with PS4 ?
                
                Do you have Real Application Cluster ?
                
                
                
                Reason for asking, we already have the licences in place
and the experts to hand for Oracle. We don't have the money or experts
for MS SQL clustering. 
                
                
                
                
        
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