Re: Your views on Quest - Shareplex

Rao,
I worked at MCI Teleconferencing for a few years and they were using SharePlex for a reporting database. Oracle replication was not fast enough to support their transaction rate and they also could not afford the overhead on the source database that occurs with Oracle replication. After a few startup issues, it worked well for them, and AFAIK, they are still using it.

During their research, they also found that Amazon.com was using it for, I think, data warehousing -- not their transactional system.

Interesting enough, I understand that Oracle has built an equivalent feature that was planned to be part of 9i. I haven't read enough on 9i to see if it made it in there or not. Perhaps someone else knows about this.

Marc Perkowitz
Senior Consultant
TWJ Consulting, LLP

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> List,
>
> My company is considering Quest - Shareplex.
>
> We are considering to use this in our dataware house. Basically, this
will
> pull all the transactions from OLTP database and populate staging area in
> the dataware house.
>
> Could you please give your experiences and the pros and cons of this
> Shareplex product.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rao
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