Re: How do you guys deal with the maintence downtime

"Phil Sher" <cool.mint_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Qohha.12239$HR6.4799_at_nwrdny01.gnilink.net>...
> We used to have Oracle 8i Standby database, and we never had any downtime.
> Since we migrated to 9i RAC, the unexpected outage is minimized(which we
> seldom had anyway), but we had significant scheduled downtime for
> 9.01->9.2.0.1.0->9.2.0.2.0->9.2.0.3.0 in such a short period, and my boss
> asked me to switch back to Primary/Standby.
>
> How do you guys deal with these? Do we have to pay another expensive
> licence for standby again. Besides, our database is so huge now, (for
> saving the cost, we put our OLTP and data warehouse together), now that the
> database is so huge(300G), it will take quite a while to make a standby
> database.
>
> Any suggestions?

check the current issue of "Select" magazine. near the back, is an article discussing changes in oracle licensing - which may or may not apply in your case - that mentions licensing of standby databases which are active less than 10 calendar days per year.

if this becomes official, in the current state of the nation (and world) having a standby database included in the typical per-cpu licensing would mean that many more sites would opt for having cold disaster or hot standby databases. that should increase the demand for DBAs, don't you think?

Paul Received on Sat Mar 29 2003 - 18:53:04 CST