RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
- From: "Uzzell, Stephan" <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:54:53 +0000
Man, only one story? I'm sure most of us have more than one to tell..
I'd say my favorite has to be during an application upgrade - previous version
of our application was not very PCI-compliant, stored credit cards, track 2
data, you name it. The new version of the app was built on 10g rather than 9i,
so to try to kill all birds with one stone, we came up with a process to
export, wipe the server (DOD-strength-overwrite of the datafile directory),
install 10g, import. Well, soon someone decided to script it. Everything looked
fine during the migration / upgrade, but first reboot post-upgrade, when Oracle
was down and nothing was holding the datafiles, the DOD-overwrite finally
managed to wipe the location. Unfortunately, his script included the 10g
datafile location, not the 9i datafile location....
Stephan Uzzell
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider
Sent: Thursday, 14 March, 2013 17:07
To: oracle-l
Subject: 1 minutes: best downtime story
Hey all -
I'm writing a paper about top causes of downtime. As one component of
research, I'd like to get some input from you!
One minute, two sentences. First sentence: describe what went down.
Second sentence: describe why. (I have to categorize all of these.) Everyone
should have at least one downtime story so I'm hoping for a lot of feedback!
Answer about any technology - database, operating system, etc.
Thanks!
-Jeremy
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Pythian Consulting Group
Chicago
+1 312-725-9249
http://www.pythian.com
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