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Re: SAP and Oracle

From: Yong Huang <yhuang_at_indigopool.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:15:21 -0500
Message-ID: <8ogupa$cer$1@news.sinet.slb.com>

Sorry for being slightly off-topic. Can you guys comment on the book "Oracle SAP Administration" by Donald K. Burleson. Does that book help learn SAP with Oracle knowledge, etc? Thanks.

Yong Huang
yhuang_at_indigopool.com

Al Bloom <db-guru_at_att.net> wrote in message news:39AB166A.62BA126A_at_att.net...
> Van Messner wrote:
> >
> > Any advice on what to do with Oracle as the db for an SAP installation?
 Are
> > you using Advanced replication? Synchronous or Non-synchronous?
 Standby
> > database? Any other? SAP says they strongly discourage parallel
 server.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Van
>
> We have over 2 TB in three production SAP/Oracle databases. One is
> standard SAP and two are industry solutions (IS in SAP terminology).
> You need to be careful in what you use if you want SAP support for
> problems. It's a little different as Oracle problems are sent to SAP
> first and they escalate to Oracle. The basic Oracle license is included
> in the SAP package and is all we use. The only Oracle option we have
> considered is parallel/partitioning and not parallel server. If you
> look at SAP architecture, you will see that it does data caching on it's
> application servers controlled by SAP which would get complicated if
> Oracle starting maintaining the database from two Oracle parallel
> servers. Since SAP is over-normalized you would really need to know the
> data model if you wanted to use replication and that can change with the
> application of a hot pack (read fixes) or a new release. I do highly
> recommend using a disk array for storage (we use EMC products) as it
> helps the availability issue.
>
> Big Al
Received on Tue Aug 29 2000 - 13:15:21 CDT

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