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RE: Replication question

From: Andrew Sit <asit_at_datamirror.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:18:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00482AAA.20020620071830@fatcity.com>


Dennis et al:

Sorry for the shameless plug, but my company has a number of products that perform oracle-oracle replication as well as DB2/MVS/SQL/ODBC/etc.-Oracle and Oracle-DB2/MVS/SQL/ODBC/etc. replication.

Yes, I am an engineer for iReflect which does similar things to shareplex (log-based replication), but also have distinct differences.

We are not bound by the issues that oracle replication and shareplex have (i.e. only replicating keyed tables, and DML only), we replicate both non-keyed tables and DDL operations as well.

http://www.datamirror.com/products/default.asp

Sorry again, will only reply to solicitations from now on...

Andy.

-- 
Andrew Sit
Systems Engineer
DataMirror Corporation
(905) 415-0310 x266 (O)
(416) 839-9908 (M) 

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:33 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Yechel - Wow, what a blow to be struck with the dreaded RTFM first thing in
the morning. Thanks Yechiel, I needed that.
	Actually, I was hoping there was another resource besides the
manual, for two reasons:
	1. This development group is a little irritated that they are forced
to use Oracle instead of MS SQL, so they are taking replication issues as
being Oracle limitations.
	2. They have been talking to the Quest salespeople, who naturally
heap disdain on Oracle's standard replication (selected Oracle SE because
the price was closer to MS SQL). I asked the Quest rep if they had a
document similar to the Oracle manual. Gosh, he couldn't think of one. Since
nobody on the list has mentioned one, maybe they don't have one. The best
resource I've found so far is a former Sybase DBA who was able to confirm
that log-based replication has most of the same issues as Oracle standard
replication has.
	Thanks everyone for your replies.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 20% OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com



-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 6:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Hello Dennis

Well, it is time for me to say: RTFM.
The replication docs have a discussion on conflict resolution,
possible conflicts and the ways to resolve them.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:52 PM



> Thanks Yechiel
> My apologies, I didn't make myself clear. I was thinking more along
the
> lines of "if a table can be updated at multiple locations, how do I keep
> those updates from stepping on each other". For example, you could add an
> additional column named "location". Now each site has their own records.
If
> that won't work for some tables, you might add a column "update_time". Now
> you can set a conflict resolution rule that the "last update wins". Maybe
I
> should rephrase my question:
> Is there a list of potential schema changes, with whatever
replication
> tool, that I can show this developer so he can see what work is ahead of
> him?
>
> Also, I was intrigued by your comment that Oracle Advanced Replication
would
> use fewer resources (than standard replication, I assume). I have not
heard
> this before, can you elaborate? Thanks
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:03 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hello Dennis
>
> The only schema changes you need for advance replication
> is primary key for each table (not a must but preferable).
>
> Quest product, Shareplex, also prefer primary keys.
> According to Quest (not tested yet) their product use a lot less resources
> on the source system because AR is implemented via triggers.
>
> The use of stand by against AR is the use of the second database.
> If you want to use it for queries or even update you need advance
> replication.
> Also, I think that AR will send a lot less data through the network
> and the same for Quest Shareplex.
>
> Synchronous Vs asynchronous depends on the need for two phase commit
> or you can live with a slight lag. It also depends on the network.
> Also, from the docs, asynchronous use more resources in the source system,
> as it writes the updates to an oracle table, reads them, send them across
> and then delete them from the tables.
>
>
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:58 PM
>
>
> > We are just starting to look at replication so each manufacturing plant
> can
> > have their own server. The applications are being developed in-house. I
> feel
> > the first issue is to analyze each table and decide how it will be
> > replicated and what schema changes need to me made to accommodate
> > replication. Instead, one of the developers wants to talk to Quest about
> > their solution. It seems to me that you need to make the same evaluation
> and
> > schema changes where needed. If anyone can point me to a white paper on
> > schema changes to consider, that would be appreciated.
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA, 20% OCP
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> >
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