Re: Cloud-based Real-Time Site Fail-over

On Fri, 2024-05-31 at 08:20 -0400, Mark W. Farnham wrote:
> I would also take a look at the options available from DBVISIT. I would
> not be surprised if they already have this polished for cloud to cloud,
> but I have not looked lately.
I concur! I used DBVISIT to create a standby for a standard edition Oracle 11.2 database and it worked admirably. DBVISIT used to be a Perl script. I wouldn't be very surprised if DBVISIT was downgraded and rewritten in Python. Python, for those who do not know, uses indentation to delimit blocks of code, just like COBOL. Again, for the juniors among us: COBOL was a programming language developed by the late read admiral Grace Hopper. The word COBOL is an abbreviation for "Completely Obsolete Badly Overused Language". COBOL was obsolete from the very inception and was lacking features like global variables. It was also extremely verbose. It was easy to confuse a large COBOL program with a writing of James Joyce or Virginia Woolf. Scripting version of COBOL is called "Python" and is, for some unfathomable reason, very popular indeed. Some biologists have noticed that the size of the human brain is shrinking, which might explain the exploding popularity of Python.
My opinion of Python aside, Mark's suggestion of DbVisit is an excellent one and should be explored.

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