DST Strategy
- From: "Parvez Bashir" <pbashir@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:51:02 -0500
Hi all,
Our DB team came up with the following DST strategy in an attempt to balance
risk with patch application resource costs for a target space of 73 dev/test
and 55 production databases (2 8i, 35 9i, 18 10g).
This includes Solaris, Aix, and Linux servers.
Note: OS DST TZ patches have been applied across the board by SA's. We are
currently on an active migration path from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g.
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1. Oracle 8i DST Patches
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No action required by Oracle. None taken. We have no 8i databases with JVM
installed.
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2. Oracle 9i TimeZone DST Patches
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We have no time zone columns in database and no PL/SQL code with time zone
types. No action taken.
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3. Oracle 10g TimeZone DST Patches
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We have no time zone columns (outside of the dictionary) in the database. We
applied TZ patches to all Oracle 10g databases. However, we did not alter
any data in the data dictionary after the utlzuv2.sql output (after
evaluating a metalink note).
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4. Oracle 9i OJVM DST Patches
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We have several databases with OJVM is installed. Only two of these
databases contain java objects. One of the databases with the Java objects
does not reference time. The other uses java time but not time zone. We are
planning to apply the patch in the later DB.
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5. Oracle 10g OJVM DST Patches
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We are applying OJVM DST patches across the board for all 10g databases with
JVM installed.
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6. Grid Control
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We are evaluating the patch/work around.
Any comments on the above strategy? Are we on a relatively safe path? What
is the worst that can happen if a DST patch (TZ or JVM) is not applied? Are
there any potential issues with database restartability?
Parvez
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