Servers:

Oracle 8.0.4 servers installed on cdfora and b0dau30.  These two and fndauk
have required lots of administration to optimize i/o and disk usage,  add 
users, etc.  To reduce the learning curve for administering these databases,
we sent Barb Angelos to DBA class last week, and Nelly Stanfield
is going next week.
 

Client software:

SGI 8.0.4 client software is now in KITS.  Clients installed on: b0sgz, cdfsga,
d0chb.  New tnsnames.ora file for unix and NT put into kits.  New tnsnames
presents the following aliases for database users:


NODE     DB ALIASES
fncduh    d0db, d0d1, cdf_dev1
fndauk    dev1, cdf_dev2
cdfora    cdfoff1, cdf_dev3
b0dau30   ordb, cdf_dev4




CDF calibration database:

Work continues on CD's part of the arch test.  An API has been designed to 
connect to both msql and oracle databases, Dennis Box is coding the Oracle
implemementation and hopes to have this finished soon so he can move on to 
other projects.


Coming Projects:

D0 Trigger database and D0 RCP database work is planned.  Hot backup and 
replication testing is looming as a high priority, the workload of
installing servers and developing software has postponed this.


Interesting Developments:

The iODBC project has been taken over by  GNU, and renamed FreeODBC .  This
should mean that code quality will improve rapidly, as should the build
environment.


I would like to welcome Paul Schmerold of SGI (paul@laser.chicago.sgi.com)
to this mailing list, he expressed an interest in this project.  He may 
be coming to some of our meetings to answer questions on SGI/Oracle Very 
Large Databases.