Re: Online Upgrade
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:10:50 +0530
Message-ID: <CADrzpjGwsXp0a-C9-zQHSExHaMrYxZAxjLFzxV2x_iOfzjC7AA_at_mail.gmail.com>
Thanks Marcin. We have considered that. But our requirement is for smaller patches as well where replication might not be practically feasible. y small patches I mean, lets say its NOT an upgrade but just a patch to change a SP.
Also, we mostly run Oracle SE.
Regards
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Purav Chovatia <puravc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We have a requirement to apply application patches online i.e. without
> > downtime. Our apps run in active-active mode and hence the app layer is
> > taken care of i.e. while instance-1 of app is being upgraded, the live
> > traffic is handled by instance-2. And once that is done, live traffic is
> > handled by instance-2 and instance-1 is upgraded. However the challenge
> is
> > to modify the DB objects i.e. SPs, tables, indices, etc.
> >
> >
> > If anybody has some best practices that are being followed can you please
> > share?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Have you ever consider building a new database and use some kind of
> one way data replication - like logical standby, Streams or Golden
> Gate.
> With you production traffic running on database 1 you can do a upgrade
> to your required version and do all schema changes on database 2
> and just use replication to keep data up to date. After all changes
> just switch application to database 2 and rebuild database 1.
>
> I have used logical standby for rolling upgrades from 11.1 to 11.2 and
> it took around 2 min downtime - application switchover time.
>
> regards,
> --
> Marcin Przepiorowski
> http://oracleprof.blogspot.com
>
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