Re: Oracle 9i:Downtime mandatory for 'Cluster offline' patches. What about with Oracle 10g?

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From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:12:55 +0100
Message-ID: <cvesun$b2v$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

qazmlp wrote:

> Could anybody clarify this? Thanks!
> 
>

>>With Oracle 9i, Cluster Downtime(all DB instances in all nodes must be
>>stopped) was mandatory for installing 'Cluster Offline" patches. Is
>>the situation different now with Oracle 10g? If yes, I would like to
>>know whether there are any cases where Downtime is still mandatory for
>>Oracle patches.

Not certified to clarify (not into clustering), but rolling updates, as it is/was called, will probably not emerge before 11i.
The mechanism should have been in 10i, rel2, iirc.

Could anyone (Mark T, Daniel M) comment on this?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Tue Feb 22 2005 - 03:12:55 CST