Tim Gorman's paper
"Choosing Among High-Availability Architectures in Oracle"
at
www.evdbt.com/library.htm
might be useful. He lists options available and relative costs.
Good luck!
Barb
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> From: Narender Akula[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: providing 24*7 database ---
>
> hi gurus,
>
> Our shop ( GIS oracle spatials ) attempting to provide a production
> database
> (7x 24 hours) , currently we have to offline database for users while
> loading of data.
> we donot what users to access data while loading.
> We are thinking of provide 24* 7 services to customers with out going
> offline.
> What are the best possible solutions ? I had few but I donot know its
> right
> direction .................
>
> Possible Solutions
>
> Replication -
> * not possible until Oracle 9i spatial (because of the restriction on
> replicating objects).
> * Even then expense of additional licensing/machinery may be too great
>
> Duplicate instances - have 2 instances and users switch from one to other
> after production load.-- how to implement ?
>
> Duplicate schema within current database. Have 3 schemas inside a single
> TIPSPROD instance. The schema with the current data remains in production
> until the second schema is loaded with the new data. This is can only
> work
> if we introduce a third schema that holds the views. At certain time, we
> redefine all the views in the DATAVIEWS schema. --- its kind of
> duplication
> --- certainly not my option
>
> Can some body direct me where to look or any ideas ?
> TIA
> > narender.akula
> >
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