Oracle-L: RE: streams comments

From: Robson, Peter <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:34:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CA802.20030813093432@fatcity.com>

Perhaps a vague reply, but FWIW I attended a half-day presentation workshop held by Oracle UK on Streams several months ago, and was very impressed, both with Streams and their workshop. They seemed to have got a much better user interface than normal replication provides, and also seemed to address some of the technical shortcomings of basic replication.

I would say the product is certainly worth spending a little more time on to check it more closely against your requirements.

peter
edinburgh

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[mailto:becker.bill_at_marshfieldclinic.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hello,

env: Oracle 9.2.0.3 on Solaris.
I am looking for any comments, good or bad, regarding Oracle Streams. We are considering using this to transfer data between some 9.2 databases on multiple Sun machines, and hope that someone would share their experience with us. Our rationale for using this as opposed to other replication methods is:

1) streams uses log-based capture 
2) captures DDL and DML
3) appears to be Oracle's future direction

I have scanned the Oracle Streams documentation. A google search and a Technet search turned up a few (mainly non-technical) papers. I could not find any books on this subject.

I have just vague questions at this point: 1) Are the Oracle docs a good source for setting this up? Do they omit

any important information?

2) Are there any additional sources of helpful information? 
3) Did you encounter any unexpected problems when configuring this tool?
4) Can you provider any measure (subjective is fine) of performance?
5) How painful is this to maintain?

Thanks for any responses.

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