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In addition, when your company has offices in time zones all over the
globe,
the idea of 'after hours' gets a bit muddy.
Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
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On 02/12/2004 03:04:08 PM, Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us wrote:
> Don't do the patch until after hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Define "after hours". When working at OXHP, after hours was 2 hours a week, on Saturday afternoon. Everything that required downtime had to be done then. Restarting database at any other time required an explicit approval from the CIO himself or coordination between VP of shared services, VP of development and representatives of the business side. Restarting system is actually a very, very big deal. I know a guy who used to work at the site which managed 911 calls for the state of NY. They had downtime window of 1 hour a month. The phrase "after hours" can be radically different from one place to another. For instance, I doubt that Rajendra can restart database which follows the scores of the sport events after 5 PM. That would be a bigger scandal then the unrehearsed wardrobe malfunction during the recent sport mega-event.
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