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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:43:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: Oracle Fail Safe
From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@gmail.com>
To: JJReimer@coopertire.com
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It's an excellent product (which probably explains why you hardly ever see
it outside of SAP environments!) It provides an Active/Passive failover for
Windows based databases. The comments elsewhere about licensing etc are
right on the money in my view - You *might* run into incompatibility issues
if you are trying to run 11.2 on windows server 2003 version.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Reimer, John J. <JJReimer@coopertire.com>wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with Oracle Fail Safe?  We are looking
> into this as an option for High Availability of our Oracle databases
> running on Windows.  It is supposed to work with MS clustering for
> server failover.  From what I have found, it is available for standard
> or enterprise editions of Oracle, and there is no additional cost.  Any
> opinions, good or bad, would be helpful.
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> Thanks,
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> John Reimer
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> DBA
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> Cooper Tire and Rubber Company
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