RE: ZERO Database Downtime???

 >>>In fact, the reason for my original post was that I had seen 
>>>the marketing presentation, and we had an Oracle customer 
>>>engineer coming in to do an additional presentation to 
>>>management.  I sprung some of the stuff we've been 
>>>discussing here, and got him to back off and say:
>>>
>>>In 99.5% of all cases, you can upgrade without downtime.

99.5% of all Critical Patch Updates are total planned outages is more
like it.

Oracle field tried to use the fictional "rooling upgrade" as a 
smoking gun for not using a shared Oracle Home...this in spite
of the fact that Tru64 and Sequent customers had been doing it
for eons...

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