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Besides what Pete said, you should have a separate OH for patches to make
sure they work as expected. This separate OH is called "The Development
Database Server".
A different machine from the production server.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Sharman [mailto:peter.sharman_at_oracle.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 1:41 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Cc: Peter Ross Sharman
Subject: RE: 10g show stoppers
Sorry, that doesn't make it for me. ASM is part of the kernel. If we plac= ed every part of the kernel in a separate home just in case patches affecte= d other parts of the kernel, we'd have to have a LOT of ORACLE_HOME's! :) ==
If an ASM patch causes problems with other parts of the kernel, it's a bug = and should be logged as such. The overhead I mentioned before doesn't seem= (to me anyway) to warrant a separate install just in case that occurs. Ot= hers, of course, may (and usually do!) have different opinions.
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Pete
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"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
=
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] =
On Behalf Of Rognes, Sten
Sent: Saturday, 3 July 2004 2:34 AM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: RE: 10g show stoppers
>> ASM is part of the database kernel - if you want you can run the ASM
>> instance and the DB instance using ASM from the same software home.
Still=3D
>> I'd think most would want to maintain separate software homes for ASM
and=3D
>> databases.
>Forgive my obtuseness (it is after all 2 am and I haven't had my first
coff=3D
>ee yet), but why would you want to do this? All I can see this causing
>is=
=3D
>additional overhead in terms of two sets of software to maintain,
>install
a=3D
>nd so on. I can't see a single benefit to this.
Say you have to apply a patch to fix an ASM specific problem. Having a separate OH for the ASM instance you wouldn't have to test/worry about what=
impact the ASM patch would have on your database. =
Sten
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