> You *might* just possibly be able to upgrade your own in-house written
> software without downtime. You *cannot* maintain Oracle software without
> downtime - 11g promises the actual shipping of 'rolling upgrades' just about
> 1/2 a decade after Larry first mentioned them. Until then (and it would be a
> brave person who relied on that particular feature in it's first release)
> then you cannot achieve 24*7 without either
Well, what 11g is *promising* (or was it Tom Kite's *prediction*?) is
online evolution of APPLICATION schema. This doesn't mean that we will
be able to do the same online evolution for sys schema. In fact, I can
bet that it won't make patchset installation any more online than now.
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Best regards,
Alex Gorbachev
The Pythian Group
Sr. Oracle DBA
http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/
http://blog.oracloid.com
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Received on Wed Dec 20 2006 - 21:48:45 CST
