Re: Quest Shareplex 3.2 Migrating from Oracle8i to Oracle9i

"Prem K Mehrotra" <premmehrotra_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:43441e77.0408140543.7ac13019_at_posting.google.com...
> "Tanel Põder" <change_to_my_first_name_at_integrid.info> wrote in message
news:<411defbd$1_2_at_news.estpak.ee>...
> > > The Oracle 'equivalent' to Shareplex is Data Guard (not RAC), and in
> > > fact a move to Data Guard (assuming you are already using Enterprise
> > > Edition) would help you with your limted budget by saving you the cost
> > > of Shareplex. Your Oracle licence costs would remain the same in both
> > > scenarios.
> >
> > Would they?
> >
> > My understanding is that when you use Data Guard - which continuously
> > receives and applies changes to standby database, requires additional
> > licenses as with normal database.
> > But if you use "poor man's standby" by transporting archivelogs manually
or
> > custom script and recovering on standby site, you don't have to by
> > additional licenses if your standby is open less than 10 days per year?
> >
> > Tanel.
>
>
> I alerday have Oracle Enterprise Edition Licenses for both Primary
> and Seconmdray servers, so I will not need any additional license for
> Data Gurad. My problem is both of these severes are production servers
> and we don't have
> any environment to test move from SahrePlex to DataGuard. I know data
> gurad is
> not hard to setup, but I hav eto convince a team of people who don't
> know anything of Oracle.

If they don't know anything about Oracle maybe it would be a good idea to learn something new.
Jim Received on Sat Aug 14 2004 - 11:40:41 CDT