Re: Two Oracle owners on one box .....

Patrick wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3CE3F5DD.8AD20BC7_at_exesolutions.com>...
>
> >
> > What does moving multiple databases to a server have to do with multiple installations of the Oracle software?
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
>
> In and of itself, nothing. The problem is the addition of the mission
> critical application. It is only critical during from 7am to 7pm. I
> can do maintenance during off hours.
>
> This database is the basis of our banks teller application. If the
> database is down, then tellers in our banking offices have a tough
> time doing their jobs. The consolidated server (or primary) is a P680
> with twelve processors (24 MAX) and twelve Gb memory. The HACMP
> fail-over server is a B80 with 4-proceesor and 4 Gb of memory.
> Obviuosly it can't handle the total load.
>
> Since we have only the one database to fail-over, and we have plenty
> of maintenance time, we decided to install Oracle on the EMC disk and
> inslude it in the HACMP fialover process. This way, we need only to
> maintain/patch one set of binaries for the teller app. Also, this is
> a third party app and the version is driven by the third-party vendor.
>
> Now that we are adding other databases to the consolidated server, we
> felt it was best to keep the oracle binaries for the other databases
> TOTALLY seperate from the teller stuff. One way to insure this, is to
> use a seperate UNIX account for the owner. Hence, the reason for my
> original question.
>
> Later,
> Patrick

Thanks for the explanation.

My feeling, and this is only a feeling, is that you are likely trading one weak link for another. This is one of the few times I would advise throwing hardware at a database problem.

Best of luck.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri May 17 2002 - 11:56:54 CDT