>While this is not a Fox issue, it certainly was wierd.
>I am building a new improved databse server. When I got to the step to apply service upgrades to the oracle engine, I naturally killed all oracle services then ran the patch set. Except for one dll (ora805) it ran fine. But, apperently ora805.dll was in use. No sweat, I'll just set all services to manual, reboot, copy the dll from the old server.
>Well, no go, file in use
>Use my debugg tools to find what has called the dll so I can kill it, nothing has called it.
>After 8 hours (yesterday and today) and multiple reboots, I called oracle. Try there solution. No luck. At the end of there resoulution was "As a last resort, rename the dll and rerun the patch set"
>Rename an open(running) file? What world are they in?
>Imagine my shock, it worked. That makes the first ever Oracle problem solved by Oracle.

Loren,

Imagine now the english definition of the word Oracle and the irony is quite ..uh.... rich. <g>

Best,

DD