Re: Any-one know how to eliminate PLANNED downtime with Oracle RAC?

Not possible simple as that.

They are still working to make all patches HOT/Online.

You can use Logical Standby to reduce downtime but zero downtime that is not feasible with current releases

Thanks

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions
Architect for Oracle) <keith.fahrenfort_at_hp.com> wrote:



>  Hi, I'm working with a customer running a critical web site on a 10gR2RAC backend

> DB - they support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections at the

> "quietest" time.

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> They have expressed a desire for NO downtime during ANY changes to Oracle,

> particularly the application of Oracle patches and Oracle upgrades (both

> minor and major), etc.

>

> Any thoughts? Who's "been there done that"?

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