It wasn't Tom's presentation at UKOUG to which I was referring. It was a reference that I can't now find to the actual delivery of some real 'rolling upgradeable' patchsets. I'd hope it was obvious from all the hedging around that I did that I'm extremely sceptical - and who knows what happens if a rolling upgrade fails halfway through - but I am sure that I've heard this promised again for 11g. For what it's worth I'm extremely sceptical about the usefulness of the application schema versioning that Tom outlined as well :) I just can't see any of the apps I've seen for the last 5 years or so being able to actually take advantage of what was described. Cheers Niall On 12/21/06, Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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. -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev The Pythian Group Sr. Oracle DBA http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/ http://blog.oracloid.com
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info