Re: Zero Downtime Upgrade and Migration

  • From: Zhu Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:18:05 +0800

It depends your understanding of splex, oracle, your application. And your 
overall skills.
Definitely spleen can achieve your goal provided that you use it well and app 
well.
Same with golden gate.



Best regards
Zhuchao


在 2010-10-14,1:34,"Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> 写到:

> Stefan,
>  
>     We tried that 9.1.0.6 Windows to 10.2.0.4 Linux.  Downtime that was 
> experienced was much more than expected (8+ hours) and we had data loss as 
> well.  And we even had a Quest consultant on site.  Not on my to-do list ever 
> again.
>  
> Dick Goulet 
> Senior Oracle DBA
> 
>  
> 
> From: Stefan Knecht [mailto:knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:17 AM
> To: Goulet, Richard; avadhanimys@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: ora-apps-dba; oracle-l; oaugnetdba-on@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Zero Downtime Upgrade and Migration
> 
> Quest Shareplex can do 8i -> 11g -- 
> 
> see http://www.quest.com/Quest_Site_Assets/PDF/DSD_SharePlex_for_Oracle_2.pdf
> 
> With (almost) no downtime.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> Avadhani,
>  
>     What your client is asking for is completely impossible.  For starters 
> your direct upgrade part is 8.1.7 (or lower) -> 8.1.7.4 -> 9.2.0.8 -> 11.2  
> and your moving os platforms which means a transportable database migration.  
> Way too many moving parts.  What is the size of the source database?  If it's 
> small enough you can go the export/import route which at least minimizes the 
> downtime.  But your not going to get to 0 on this one.
>  
> Dick Goulet 
> Senior Oracle DBA
> 
>  
> 
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Avadhani mys
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:45 AM
> To: ora-apps-dba; oracle-l; oaugnetdba-on@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Zero Downtime Upgrade and Migration
> 
> Hello Gurus,
> 
> Please let me know any suggestions other than Oracle-Golden-gate to achieve 
> Zero  downtime migration.the challenge is we need to Upgrade and Migrate 
> Oracle 8i database [Upgrade to  11gR2 and migrate to Sun-Solaris  from AIX]. 
> This is very critical application and client needs Zero  downtime.
> 
> Please let me know your valuable suggestions on this. And also please let me 
> know your valuable inputs/links on the documents on using Oralce Golden gate 
> to achieve Zero  downtime upgrade and migration
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Avadhani
> 

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