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well, they paid big bucks for him to come in and tell them what to do....
you just work there :)
>From: "Tom Pall" <tom_at_cdproc.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re: What to Choose ?
>Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:26:22 -0800
>
>Another nice trait is putting in writing and thereby causing to be procured
>those things
>this DBA campaigned for, unsuccessfully, till he was blue in the face.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 2:20 AM
>
>
> > One of Kevin's best traits is common sense. :)
> >
> > Oh yeah, he'll be at openworld too
> >
> >
> > >From: "Tom Pall" <tom_at_cdproc.com>
> > >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > >Subject: Re: What to Choose ?
> > >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:18:27 -0800
> > >
> > >Kevin Loney came to visit for a few days last year and I spoke about HA
> > >with him.
> > >We're running on Sun/Sparc, fairly new hardware (and Sun disks
>[grrrrrrr]).
> > >Kevin asked me to list each failure. They clustered around the disks:
> > >losing a cable,
> > >controller problem.
> > >
> > >"Why, then" he asked, "would you go OPS for HA?"
> > >
> > >We are very happy with the HA path we chose: Fiber Channel, filesystem
> > >mirroring.
> > >When node A has a problem, we export the filesystems from node A,
>import
> > >them into node B,
> > >start Oracle on node B. Oracle looks around, sees a crashed database,
> > >performs instance recovery.
> > >We don't have autofailover of sessions, don't need it.
> > >
> > >The Fiber Channel, filesystem mirroring also allows me to have a
>reporting
> > >database every day:
> > >form a mirror, break the mirror, scp a copy of the control file and
> > >archived redo logs (after a bunch of
> > >log switches on production). We start up the reporting database,
>recover
> > >it, open for business.
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:27 PM
> > >
> > >
> > > > I thought that Oracle parallel server meant multiple processing
> > > > nodes mounted onto the same disk farm. Thus disk failures would
>show
> > > > up in all instances. Also, if different instances are accessing
> > > > the same data block, one has to wait for the other to finish with
>it,
> > > > making OPS not a proven technology for OLTP (??).
> > > >
> > > > A backup from the hardware end sounds more purposeful towards high
> > > > availability.
> > > >
> > > > P.S. Someone said IBM's HACMP config isn't reliable in having the
> > > > second node mount disks when one node goes down, leaving no access
> > > > to data at all.
> > > >
> > > > Akshay Jain
> > > > _______________________
> > > > Newcourt-CIT
> > > > Tel. (416) 507-5385
> > > > mailto:Akshay.Jain_at_cit.com
> > > > _______________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 6:02 AM
> > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > WE are looking at "high availability".I need some help to decide
> > > > whether to go for
> > > > a High Availability Sun cluster with backup server or for Oracle
> > >parallel
> > > > server.
> > > > Keeping the key word in mind what would u people advice ?
> > > > I would be happy if you can provide any links to the mentioned
>Subject.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Kamal
> > > > --
> > > > Author: Kamalakannan, D (CAP, GCF)
> > > > INET: D.Kamalakannan_at_gecapital.com
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