Objectivity Usage Heuristics
If in doubt, keep re-OODDLXing
Application crashes with weird, never-seen-before-error deep in system kernel ? Re-OODDLX.
If in doubt, re-OOINSTALLFD
Multiple writers in one database or container? Best of luck to you ...
Locking problems in MROW mode ? MROW doesn’t work, does it?
Buffers full ? Check OO_CACHE variables - should be suitably big
Database replication? Use ftp … and ooinstallfd/ooattachdb
Bad errors when closing Windows apps ? Use ooExitCleanup()
Avoid evolving your Schema
Run regular checks on all objects in your database: if they’re OK today, they may not be tomorrow
Keep locking rate below ~5 locks per second. Exceed this at your peril
The Advanced Multithreaded Server isn’t …. Until 5.2
(That’s enough Heuristics … Ed.)