RE: ZERO Database Downtime???

From: <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:00:26 -0700
Message-ID: <5D2570CAFC98974F9B6A759D1C74BAD06FE647@ex2.ms.polyserve.com>

 >>>In fact, the reason for my original post was that I had seen 

>>>the marketing presentation, and we had an Oracle customer
>>>engineer coming in to do an additional presentation to
>>>management. I sprung some of the stuff we've been
>>>discussing here, and got him to back off and say:
>>>
>>>In 99.5% of all cases, you can upgrade without downtime.

99.5% of all Critical Patch Updates are total planned outages is more like it.

Oracle field tried to use the fictional "rooling upgrade" as a smoking gun for not using a shared Oracle Home...this in spite of the fact that Tru64 and Sequent customers had been doing it for eons...

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Received on Mon Apr 03 2006 - 12:00:26 CDT