RE: Looking for 24 X 7 Design Considerations

Only a little over 4 years here and a sys admin for 7, but I completely agree 100%.

What a lot of people neglect is the bugs that he mentioned, yeah it may test well under development, or under certain testing, and may even run fine for a while even months, but when one of those new bugs come up out of no where, and no one is familiar with it, it can cripple you.

"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Sure i've hit the undo management bug that wiped out my SAND box database just last week, db got hung up, had to shutdown abort and then redo logs/undo management tablespace couldnt be mounted so it was screwed.

Sorry but I've been an oracle dba since version 5 almost 10 years ago and my personal opinion is i'd never put a x.0 version of oracle in production mode before its been out for 12 months.

joe
Paul Baumgartel wrote:
>
> I agree with you, Charlie. The fact that an Oracle release is
> relatively new doesn't mean it's riddled with bugs (although that was
> once the case); neither does the fact that it's been out for 12 months
> or so mean that there aren't any show-stoppers lurking within.
>
> I've made the case before that 9i should be considered more as if it
> were 8.2. Yes, it's new, and yes, you should test and verify
> carefully, but it's not as large a leap as going from Oracle7 to
> Oracle8, for example.
>
> Paul Baumgartel
>
> --- Charlie Mengler <charliem_at_mwh.com> wrote:
> > I guess then I'm "nutso", because I have a 9i DB in production.
> > Any independently verifiable substantiation for your claim would be
> > welcomed.
> > This 9i instance has had flawless performance for the last two
> > months;
> > which
> > is how long it has been in production.
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: RE: Looking for 24 X 7 Design Considerations
> > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:40:18 -0800
> > From: "JOE TESTA" <JTESTA_at_longaberger.com>
> > Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> > Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >
> > Anyone contemplating upgrading anything more important than a
> > sandbox
> > database to 9i is nutso. 9i is ready for development playing around
> > in
> > 6-8 months, production no earlier than 12-18 months is my
> > estimation. joe
> >
>
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