Re: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-06 Thread Richard Foote
- Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:34 AM You know, from a logistics perspective I'm interested in something here that maybe those that use SharePlex can cast some light on. The only Oracle supported

RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-06 Thread Nelson, Allan
The semi official shtick from Quest is that Oracle changes the log file format rarely because the change ripples through much of the rest of the server code. Log file format affects archiving and recovery at a pretty basic level. As a financials shop, I don't worry too much about keeping up with

RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Please bear in mind that there is one thing in a datatype being supported and another in all functions and features of Shareplex being usable when that datatype is involved. I am thinking about datatype long specifically. We have been replicating a 8i database (tru64) to a 9i one (sun)using

RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread Nelson, Allan
We are working on a SharePlex project here although we are still in test/pilot phases. We are in an apps 11i environment with an 8.1.7.4 database. So far, we have found that index organized tables are not supported. In addition, in financials, there is a table named hz_locations that has a UDT

Re: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread Paul Baumgartel
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but make sure you test logical standby thoroughly--I had to abandon the idea of using it due to serious bugs in the apply process, and due to seriously poor performance of the apply process. --- elain he [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are

RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread Tim Onions
That goes for Shareplex too (sorry to state the obvious). I've been seriously bitten in recent weeks by problems with their stuff too. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ...the speech-to-data Application Service Provider

RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread Pete Sharman
You know, from a logistics perspective I'm interested in something here that maybe those that use SharePlex can cast some light on. The only Oracle supported mechanism for mining the redo logs is LogMiner, yes? Now, given that we can change the format of the redo logs from release to release

RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread elain he
recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: shareplex: datatype unsupported Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:34:25 -0800 You know, from a logistics perspective I'm interested in something here that maybe those that use SharePlex can cast some light on. The only Oracle supported mechanism

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-25 Thread Yechiel Adar
-From: Gorbounov,Vadim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:01 PMTo: Aponte, TonySubject: RE: SharePlex info Tony, My question was inspired by belief that SharePlex does log mining on the source DB and hence do not send unnecessary

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-25 Thread Tim Onions
NT. T¬-Original Message-From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 25 August 2003 09:10To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: SharePlex info Sorry about the late reply but (if I remember correctly from my research about one year ago) Shareplex does something lik

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-22 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:44 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex info Your bandwidth requirements will be the rate of changes to the actual data. The traffic consists of the actual data and control information needed to

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread raju pa
1)You would need lessnetwork bandwidth with shareplex than you would for transporting archive logs. about 1/3 rd ofwhat you would need for physical stdby. 2) CPU burden would be 'little' I guess. 3) Shareplex replication allows you to have the table available for read on the target. (even

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Message Hi! Btw, you can physically replicate 50% of your tables with regular standby mechanisms as well. You just take the files belonging to non-needed tablespaces offline and standby recovers only the required part. You just have to arrange your tables to right tablespaces and

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Thank you, Raju. Very helpful -Original Message-From: raju pa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: SharePlex info 1)You would need lessnetwork bandwidth with shareplex than you would

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: Message Your bandwidth requirements will be the rate of changes to the actual data. The traffic consists of the actual data and control information needed to reassemble the transaction on the target. The source database's other redo payload (i.e., index operations, rollback segment

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:14 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: SharePlex info Hi! Btw, you can physically replicate 50% of your tables with regular standby mechanisms as well. You just take the files belonging to non-needed tablespaces offline and standby recovers

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Tanel Poder
But you would be wanting to transfer *full* logfiles away from your production servers anyway at least if your data is worth something... Tanel. 1)You would need lessnetwork bandwidth with shareplex than you would for transporting archive logs. about 1/3 rd ofwhat you

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Tanel Poder
. - Original Message - From: Gorbounov,Vadim To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:54 AM Subject: RE: SharePlex info Tanel, That's nice trick, thanks a lot. In this casewhole redo steam must be passed over the network anyway. 5

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread A Joshi
steam must be passed over the network anyway. 5 MB/sec over WAN. So we'are doing research if we could same some bandwidth. Vadim -Original Message-From: Tanel Poder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:14 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: SharePle

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Tanel Poder
: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:14 AM Subject: RE: SharePlex info Yes. A nice neat trick indeed. Has anyone tried this? About your redo generation : 5MB/sec - 18000 MB/hour == 18GB IT is indeed huge. IS this peak or average? Good luck. "Gorbounov,Vadim" [EMAIL

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2003.08.09 17:14, Indy Johal wrote: As Nelson is not in Oracle 9i, And so the option availbale with him are Who or what is Nelson? There was a guy named Horatio Nelson who died at Trafalgar after tasting too much of French food and was widely followed by the paparazzi of the time because of his

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Nelson, Allan
Actually, I suspect I will be able to do the testing myself before I get more back from those guys. Matthew Zito made a good point in another reply to this message saying that 32 bit addresses had to be translated to 64 bit addresses because of architecture requirements so you would still

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Nelson, Allan
. Allan -Original Message-From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:30 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex Summary No penalty. HP-UX is 64-bit os running on a 64-bit chip. Why would 64 bits impose any

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Indy Johal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.prnewswire.com(201) 946-5687 [W](201) 400-3960 [M]We tell your story to the world.Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]08/09/2003 05:59 PM PSTPlease respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: Re

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Nick Wagner
-Original Message-From: Nelson, Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:44 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex We are not running 9i but 8.1.7.4, sorry for not including that earlier. We are rolling out to our international offices

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message No penalty. HP-UX is 64-bit os running on a 64-bit chip. Why would 64 bits impose any penalty? Running 64 bits is what comes naturally. Running 64 bits means that sizeof(void *) will return 8 instead of 4. That, in turn, means that SGA can grow much bigger because you don't

Re: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Frankly, that does not sound logical to me, but I would be extremely interested if there is any authenticity to the statement. I would ask the individual who made the statement to provide the proof. I can't stop envisioning this on the next myth list. PST Please respond to

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: SharePlex Nelson, SharePlex does the same basic thing that Oracle does for the logical standby, as a matter of fact if your running 9i why not use that instead of Quests's pricey tool? I don't believe there is any additional cost to using logical standby over the second server

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Allan As to your Shareplex comments, I'm in no position to support or refute your conclusions. My admittedly brief experience with replication leads me to the conclusion that there are no simple conclusions. If ever there was an area where your mileage may vary, this is it. Replication is a

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Indy Johal
PROTECTED]Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]08/09/2003 05:34 PM PSTPlease respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: Re: SharePlex On 2003.08.09 17:14, Indy Johal wrote: As Nelson is not in Oracle 9i, And so the option availbale with him areWho

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Indy Johal
]We tell your story to the world.Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]08/09/2003 03:09 PM PSTPlease respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: Re: SharePlex Hi! If the Load is not high on the Production server and what I meant

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! If the Load is not high on the Production server and what I meant by load is the Transaction Load. As it Financial system , so it all depend on the Modules More like on number users and their activities.. -- Physical Standby databse - This option is good * If there is not much load

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
8, 2003 5:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex Nelson, SharePlex does the same basic thing that Oracle does for the logical standby, as a matter of fact if your running 9i why not use that instead of Quests's pricey tool? I don't believe there is a

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: SharePlex Summary Allan, We use HP-UX 11.o 11i with 817 9i. No difference that I've noticed. Actually 9i seems to perform better. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Nelson, Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday,

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Nelson, Allan
Title: Message Cool, I'll give 9i a try on HPUX. -Original Message-From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:19 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex Summary Allan, We use HP-UX 11.o 11i with 817

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Zito
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nelson, AllanSent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:44 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex Summary Yes we are PA risc rather than Itanic. The analysis I heard was the 64 bits (8

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Is your first sentence a bit of an understatement Nick ? If so I suppose you can call your points 'leading' questions like lawyers use to trap a defendant We use Shareplex and I have seen some of your posts on the subject (and still have them in my saved box) John -Original Message-

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Ha, been there done that Not an uncommon event as I understand it. John -Original Message- Sent: 09 August 2003 23:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'll add one to the list: nnn) How much downtime and DBA time is required when the Shareplex replication queues get

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! --- I don't meant to say Logical standby here as Logical Standby databasse can never be Realtime as they work like streams in Asynchronous manner. THe only option available fo Synchronous data movement is with Oracle advance replication or Physical standby Database where it can

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Nelson, Allan
. They will be on Linux next month. Allan -Original Message-From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 4:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex Nelson, SharePlex does the same basic thing that Oracle does

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Tanel Poder
On 2003.08.09 17:14, Indy Johal wrote: As Nelson is not in Oracle 9i, And so the option availbale with him are Who or what is Nelson? There was a guy named Horatio Nelson who died at Trafalgar after tasting too much of French food and was widely followed by the paparazzi of the time

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Indy Johal
PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: RE: SharePlex Actually, logical standby database does have a hidden cost because you need Data Guard which is licensedseparately. The product that mimics SharePlex is called Oracle Streams and it is a redo log based replicationtool, sort of Logminer on steroids. By the way

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2003.08.09 09:39, Tanel Poder wrote: MessageHi! Mladen, does DG really have additional fee when using EE? I tried to check from oraclestore, but got - instead: Tanel, my @#$%! Adelphia Cable connection is down more or less throughout the day today, so I cannot check at the Oracle Store, but

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-10 Thread Tim Onions
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 09 August 2003 00:04To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SharePlex I know a little of their product... but I think you should be well aware of the limitations before attempting to implement it. Here are a couple of questions to ask the technical folks

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-10 Thread Tanel Poder
database. You should really check metalink notes 216212.1 and 216211.1 when thinking Apps and standby. Tanel. - Original Message - From: Mladen Gogala To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:04 AM Subject: RE: SharePlex Actua

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-09 Thread Tanel Poder
I could access oraclestore today and didn't see neither DataGuard nor Streams in database additions section (where RAC, Data Mining and others are). Then did a product search on dataguard, data guard, standby - got no positive results... But maybe the sales guys have other story... I've luckily

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: SharePlex it is _supposed_ to work that way ... close to production. But last time we looked at it, there were too many limitations relates to IOT, VARRAYS etc and it wasn't ready for our platform and version . but it is supposed to be good ... I have heard similar things about

RE: SharePlex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SharePlex core dumps - help Call Quest Software technical support. They will be more than happy to help you. I think there is already a patch out to fix this. Just call 1-800-306-9329 and once you speak with an operator, ask to place a support call for SharePlex. Nick

RE: shareplex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Sounds like a bug. If SharePlex gets an error applying SQL to the target, the table should get marked out-of-sync and Shareplex should go on it's merry way. Call Shareplex Support - they are usually very responsive. - Jerry -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:35 AM