Re: Experience with Quest Shareplex

I did some investigation into SharePlex a few years ago. I tried for months to get someone to respond to email and voicemail messages to the vendor that "I want to buy SharePlex and I have the money". Eventually I got the software for evaluation. I found once again that replication isn't easy, no matter which approach or vendor you use. My own playing around with SharePlex, talks with noted Oracle book authors and email exchanges with SharePlex users who responded to my query on this listserver privately honed in on one problem: getting synchronized and ready to start replicating. SharePlex would synch up table after table, find one it couldn't synch up and fail.

Like anything with Oracle, see if Oracle's solution fits your needs first. It's nice only having to go to one vendor for support. SharePlex costs a lot of money. Make sure you've got your requirements firm. After all of my investigating, the company I did the work for decided they could live with reporting databases created by breaking a third mirror, exporting the filesystems from the production box, importing them into the reporting box. If you really need the capability of SharePlex, well, it does have a lot of happy customers. Be prepared, as they were, to spend lots of time getting it right.
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> Does anyone have experience with a product called Shareplex
> by Quest Software. We have some remote access performance
> issues and my management is looking at this product
> as a possible solution for a distributed database.
>
> thanks,
> Peter Schauss
> Northrop Grumman Corporation
> schaupe_at_mail.northgrum.com
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