Will Greene wrote:
> Hello,
> I have received conflicting information whether or not redo logs can
> be applied from our production database, 8.1.7.4 UTF8, to our staging
> database,
> 8.1.7.4 USASCII7. The reason for this is due to a Siebel upgrade while
> allowing production to continue since downtime cannot be longer than
> a few hours. So I was planning on doing something like this:
>
> Export Production
>
> Import into staging
>
> upgrade staging
>
> and then applying logs from production
>
> shut down production
>
> startup up on staging and switch boxes
Couldn't you do a rman based duplication, configure the staging db as standby
and then simply switch over?
Lots of Greetings!
Volker
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Received on Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:30:49 CDT
