Another thing to watch are the dbms_job entries, especially ones which interact with
other databases. For example a job which pulls data from another database and writes
back to that database the success of its efforts. If this job were to run in the
clone, it might perform this task before the "real" database does. Jobs such as these
should first check to see that they are running on the proper database before
executing.
Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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Many of you probably know this already, but it took me by surprise (and
caused no end of grief) so I thought I'd warn people.
I cloned our 8.0.4 production database onto another machine for some testing
we were doing (copy of entire Oracle filesystem, copied hot backup over) and
started it up with no problems.
What I didn't realize when I ran my shutdown script (which also stops the
listener) was that I hadn't changed the hostname in listener.ora. It
stopped the listener on the production box!
Had you asked me before this happened I wouldn't have expected it to work
that way, but a number of irate users and managers testify to the fact that
it does. I restarted the listener as soon as anyone thought to notify me of
the problem (it says something about the processes here that it was 45
minutes after I restarted the listener that that our Help Desk contacted me
me about the problem, I first heard about it from a developer).
Sigh, learn something new every day.
Hope someone out there benefits from my mistake.
Jay Miller
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