RE: installing security patches on a Windows database server (was "Oracle 10g for Windows")

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:45:02 -0500
Message-ID: <A186CBDC8B1D61438BC50F1A77E91F73057C1977@xchgbrsm1.corp.espn.pvt>

on the sports database, our upgrade window is 3 hours (if we are lucky) = on the Sunday after super bowl (once a year), both sides can't be down = more than 1 hour, during which we have a separate instance to which = everyone connects, so practically no downtime just some data loss = (regeneratable of course) ... take it or leave it.

Raj

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:37 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: installing security patches on a Windows database server (was "Oracle 10g for Windows")

On 02/12/2004 03:04:08 PM, Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us wrote:
> Don't do the patch until after hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Define "after hours". When working at OXHP, after hours was 2 hours a week, on Saturday afternoon. Everything that required downtime had =20 to be done then. Restarting database at any other time required an explicit approval from the CIO himself or coordination between VP of shared services, VP of development and representatives of the business side. Restarting system is actually a very, very big deal. I know a guy who used to work at the site which managed 911 calls for the state of NY. They had downtime window of 1 hour a month. The phrase "after hours" can be radically different from one place to another. For instance, I doubt that Rajendra can restart database which follows the scores of the sport events after 5 PM. That would be a bigger scandal then the unrehearsed wardrobe malfunction during the recent sport mega-event.

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