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
with Oracle. Oracle development can't do that so neither can we. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You know, from a logistics perspective I'm interested in something here that maybe those that use SharePlex can cast

shareplex: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread elain he
Hi, We are evaluating using either Oracle logical standby or Quest Shareplex replication for reporting purposes. It appears that there are quite a few datatypes not supported by Logical standby. Anyone knows what datatypes are not supported by shareplex replication? Tried looking up at quest

shareplex 4.5: datatype unsupported

2003-11-05 Thread elain he
I forgot to mention we're looking at Shareplex 4.5. I found DDLs and datatypes not supported on version 4.0 but not on 4.5. Thanks. elain From: elain he [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: shareplex: datatype unsupported Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:01:44 -0500 Hi, We are evaluating

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
are evaluating using either Oracle logical standby or Quest Shareplex replication for reporting purposes. It appears that there are quite a few datatypes not supported by Logical standby. Anyone knows what datatypes are not supported by shareplex replication? Tried looking up at quest website

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

Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
Hi gurus, Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris One of our databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on this database. Here is the output of v$session_event SID EVENT TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS TIME_WAITED

Re: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Hemant K Chitale
With 2 CPUs, a Run-Queue of 1.27 isn't high. As SharePlex seems to be the only process taking CPU, it is taking 100% of 1 CPU. If it is one process only, then the CPU speed __could__ [and I'm not saying IS] the constraint. Adding CPUs wouldn't help. However, upgrading to a faster CPU would

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on this database. Here is the output of v$session_event SID EVENT TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS TIME_WAITED AVERAGE_WAIT

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
Allan, I don't know about the source machine. I receive around 350Megs of data every day. I'm using sp_ctrl to stop and restart my Post process and monitor the queue. I'm pretty sure that the bottleneck come from Shareplex. Oracle is waiting for Shareplex, we have server's resources available

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
Dan, The process taking 50% is an Oracle process and it is connected on Shareplex Oracle user. I have two different error messages: 1- System call error: sp_cop(dsm) Temporary error (h_errno = 2) gethostbyname (can't add entry for ora4) I got this error every 10 minutes, but I didn't find

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
Shareplex is fast here. We replicate a 6 CPU db to a 4 CPU machine without excessive loads or problems. We run an average of 29 messages with about 1 GB in the queues. Our data is 0 minutes old. Outside of contacting Quest support I'm sure of how much help I can be. When I have seen SP claim

Re: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Mladen Gogala
that the bottleneck come from Shareplex. Oracle is waiting for Shareplex, we have server's resources available (CPU is 50% idle). How can we speed up Shareplex? Luc -Original Message- Sent: October 23, 2003 12:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How big is the box that is the source

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Goulet, Dick
Now we don't use Shareplex, but I do know of others who do this is not the first time I hear of performance problems, but I may be able to shed some light on the problem. Since Shareplex reads the redo logs, if one statement on the source database affects more than one row (lets say 10

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dan, The process taking 50% is an Oracle process and it is connected on Shareplex Oracle user. I have two different error messages: 1- System call error: sp_cop(dsm) Temporary error (h_errno = 2) gethostbyname

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
on this order could be the problem. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now we don't use Shareplex, but I do know of others who do this is not the first time I hear of performance problems, but I may be able to shed some light

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now we don't use Shareplex, but I do know of others who do this is not the first time I hear of performance problems, but I may be able to shed some light on the problem. Since

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread raju pa
arly since data integrity is usually enforced in thesource db you can typically disable it in the target. I supposesomething on this order could be the problem.Allan-Original Message-Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LNow we don't use Shareplex, but

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread David Kurtz
One of my clients has been talking to me about similar issues. What kind of system are you replicating? How much redo logging are you generating per day? Does shareplex start to fall behind during the processing peaks? _ David Kurtz Go-Faster Consultancy Ltd. tel: +44 (0

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-25 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: Message Sorry about the late reply but (if I remember correctly from my research about one year ago) Shareplex does something like log mining only on Unix systems. On NT it uses triggers just like replication. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Aponte

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-25 Thread Tim Onions
Title: Message Shareplex does not use triggers on NT it uses the same underlying technology as it does on Unix "reading" the log files and shipping SQL to the target database. It uses a 3rd party tool called "Knutcracker" to allow it to some ofits UNIX commands on

RE: SharePlex info

2003-08-22 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Title: Message Tony, My question was inspired by belief that SharePlex does log mining on the source DB and hence do not send unnecessary data over the network. Apparently, this is not the case. I didn't want to compare SharePlex to logical standby cause I know that logical standby

SharePlex info

2003-08-22 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: Message You are correct in the first place. SharePlex works as you describe, it mines the log and sends only the absolute minimum to reassemble the transaction on the target. It doesn't send SQL. The target side processes take the data and rebuild a SQL statement from the DDL

Replication options Was: SharePlex info

2003-08-22 Thread tjambu_fatcity
Hi there In the past few weeks, there have been lots of discussion about HA, data replication and using Shareplex, dataguard, Streams, logical physical standby. As most of you have found out each has it own pros and cons. You also need two sets of Database licences and Shareplex licences

SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Title: Message Hi All, I'm trying to find some technical details about SharePlex, that is: - How much network bandwidth I'd expect to replicate from database, generating 1-5 MB/sec redo. DoesSharePlex send SQL text over the network or data in some internal (hopefully compressed)format

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 update

Re: SharePlex info

2003-08-21 Thread Tanel Poder
and spend your money elsewhere. Physical standby and shareplex can operate on archivelogs, thus they can do their jobs without any additional burden to source database CPU, since you generate and archive your logs anyway. You can do archivelog's processing on target or some staging server. Tanel

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
maintenance, etc.) is not used by Shareplex. In our environment of dual Sun 6800's, 10 CPU's each, we observe less that 1% CPU consumption on the source and target sides combined. It varies according to the DML load on the source but not by much. We've never had a problem with it consuming

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
Title: Message Ok, in this case Shareplex might be better, if it is able to extract only relevant data from logs. Actually, you could dosomewhat similar yourself using logminer as well. You just extract all needed DML statements on either production or staging server, compress the output

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
PROTECTED] cc: First thanks to every one who responded both on the list and to my private email: The consensus appeared to be: 1.  SharePlex is overly expensive for the functionality delivered and 2.  Oracle has caught up in 9i for much of the functionality 3.  Some features of Oracle like

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
: SharePlex I could access oraclestore today and didn't see neither DataGuard norStreams in database additions section (where RAC, Data Mining and othersare).Then did a product search on dataguard, data guard, standby - got nopositive results...But maybe the sales guys have other story... I've luckily

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

SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Nelson, Allan
Title: SharePlex Summary First thanks to every one who responded both on the list and to my private email: The consensus appeared to be: 1. SharePlex is overly expensive for the functionality delivered and 2. Oracle has caught up in 9i for much of the functionality 3. Some features

RE: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
. On the other hand, who will ever need more then 640K RAM? --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nelson, AllanSent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:49 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: SharePlex

Re: SharePlex Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: First thanks to every one who responded both on the list and to my private email: The consensus appeared to be: 1.  SharePlex is overly expensive for the functionality delivered and 2

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

SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Nelson, Allan
Title: SharePlex Hello, Quest is trying to sell us a product named SharePlex. It sounds very attractive, but then sales people are supposed to be good at that. We are a mid sized company, about 2.2 billion per year, running Financials 11.5.7. We are interested in this for HA

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
, for example. This may createsome inconveniences to users though.Note that even when running Apps on shareplex-replicated-standby-databaseisn't probably supported, then for Cognos it doesn't matter, it only dealswith content of tables anyway, and SP should be able to tranfer datacorrectly.- I had

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Tanel Poder
, one solution would be to just to recover standby database few times a day, at lunchtime, for example. This may create some inconveniences to users though. Note that even when running Apps on shareplex-replicated-standby-database isn't probably supported, then for Cognos it doesn't matter, it only

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Actually, logical standby database does have a hidden cost because you need Data Guard which is licensed separately. The product that mimics SharePlex is called Oracle Streams and it is a redo log based replication tool, sort of Logminer on steroids. By the way, logminer

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
Title: Message We are not running 9i but 8.1.7.4, sorry for not including that earlier. We are rolling out to our international offices and we basically have offices in every time zone. I'm looking at SharePlex for HA, reporting use, and potentially migrating from HP to Linux

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
MladenActually your statement that Neither logminer, SharePlex nor Streams can handle DDL is not correct. With Oracle 9 logminer it is possible to capture DDL and so the Stream capture DDL as it uses logminer at the back. As Nelson is not in Oracle 9i, And so the option availbale with him

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
Title: Message I'll add one to the list: nnn) How much downtime and DBA time is required when the Shareplex replication queues get corrupted and you have to rebuild your entire replicated database? (I only add that as I've got to do it tomorrow morning). T¬ From: Nick Wagner [mailto

Re: SharePlex

2003-08-10 Thread Tanel Poder
ntact an Oracle Sales Representative." They must be upgrading :) But for shareplex Financials issues, I think that Financials isn't probably supported running on "shareplexed" database. You ought to go with an Oracle solution, but I think logical standby mechanism is currently too bug

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: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Very cute - this tends to suggest that Shareplex is spotting the appearance of chains in the log and storing the list of rowids. Would the same thing work if you shut down the Shareplex processes after the row had chained, and restarted them before you updated the chained piece ? And does

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex Would the same thing work if you shut down the Shareplex processes after the row had chained, and restarted them before you updated the chained piece ? -- Yes And does Shareplex guarantee that it will never report a 1555 error regardless of how long it is shut

Re: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Nick, Thanks for the notes. I've often wondered how Shareplex did its thing. Just for kicks - have you tried writing a collision handler for streams ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see http

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-21 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex This is actually part of the 'magic' of SharePlex. The way we obtain the PK information from the database if the PK was not modified is very tricky. I can tell you some of the 'magic' but not all of it. (NDA type stuff) In all updates the redo logs contain

Re[2]: quest shareplex

2003-01-20 Thread Ceri Townsend
Hi, I have used Shareplex for a number of years now, albeit with a relatively simple configuration (bi-directional master-to-master replication across a WAN). We had a few teething problems with earlier versions of the software, but since our last upgrade about 18months ago, we have had

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-20 Thread Martin, Alan
Title: RE: quest shareplex Has anyone used Oracle Streams for simple A to B replication? Likes/dislikes? Can it be used in 8.1.7? Thanx, Alan Martin Defense Logistics Information Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

Re: quest SharePlex

2003-01-19 Thread Jonathan Lewis
with the 'supplemental logging' feature - which Shareplex could probably use to even better effect, but how do you do it before 9 ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html

quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Joseph S Testa
I'm working with a couple of IBM gals(don't you all get offended) who are asking about shareplex, i've not used it and have no idea whether its good or not(or for that matter what its purpose is). Anyone enlighten me. thanks, joe Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Ji
Quest Shareplex is a replication software. Nick Wagner from Quest is on this list and he is been very helpful and I am sure he will be glad to provide you info on it. Right Nick? :) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: quest shareplex It allows for master to master replication. My understanding is that Oracle's Data Guard now does the same thing. Shareplex was faster then replication with less latency because it would read from the online redo files from Oracle. I understand that Data Guard now

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest shareplex I was going to keep quite... but here goes. :) - Yes, of course I'll be glad to help. Basically... Log Based replication for Oracle. A capture process continually reads the online redo logs and parses out

Re: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Since the redo log contains only details about object id, row location, and changed values , how do you derive a table-name and key value for the SQL to be applied ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Khedr, Waleed
ORACLE-L I'm working with a couple of IBM gals(don't you all get offended) who are asking about shareplex, i've not used it and have no idea whether its good or not(or for that matter what its purpose is). Anyone enlighten me. thanks, joe Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex You provide a 'configuration file' which is just a flat file of table names on the source machine and table names on the target machine. Then we go through an activation process that takes the table name on the source and grabs the object id from Oracle

shareplex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Ji, Richard
Hi all, We are having a shareplex issue and I am hoping someone here with shareplex knowledge can help me out. I don't know much about shareplex. Basically we are replicating to a target table which is partitioned by date. And partitions that are 3 days old will be set to read-only because

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

Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread Schauss, Peter
Does anyone have experience with a product called Shareplex by Quest Software. We have some remote access performance issues and my management is looking at this product as a possible solution for a distributed database. thanks, Peter Schauss Northrop Grumman Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex Hasn't Oracle basically built-in this same functionality in a current version of the RDBMS - wouldn't you want to check that out first? - Just a thought. -Original Message- From: Schauss, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday

RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex Last I heard about shareplex that it still had some problems with IOTs and user defined types ... they seems to be working on those though ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra

Re: Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread Tom Pall
I did some investigation into SharePlex a few years ago. I tried for months to get someone to respond to email and voicemail messages to the vendor that I want to buy SharePlex and I have the money. Eventually I got the software for evaluation. I found once again that replication isn't easy

RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex From indirect experience it is another layer of administration and requires some manually steps depending on the configuration of your database/system. Again, for that reason might want to consider Oracle's similar product that way you won't get

RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex Unfortunately this was from vendor's sales rep. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect

RE: Experience with Quest Shareplex

2002-10-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
in the vendor vs. vendor he-said/she-said thing. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Last I heard about shareplex that it still had some problems with IOTs and user defined types ... they seems to be working on those though ... Raj

Oracle DBA Needed with Shareplex and Factory Works

2002-10-02 Thread OraStaff
operating commands and tools. -Experience with techniques for data replication, data movement, data loading, data warehousing, and business intelligence tools is required. -Specific experience with Oracle Advanced Replication (OAR), Quest Shareplex replication software, Oracle OEM and RMAN

Re: Oracle DBA Needed with Shareplex and Factory Works

2002-10-02 Thread Joe Testa
standard reply, no aliens(foreign or outerspace kind). joe OraStaff wrote: snip -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joe Testa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

RE: urgent help: replication, shareplex

2002-10-02 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: urgent help: replication, shareplex I suggest you take a peek at the waits for the Shareplex process on the source system. We found that the sp_ordr processes query the source tables via the rowid mined out of the redo stream. Sp_ocap also issues queries as well as perform DML

urgent help: replication, shareplex

2002-09-30 Thread Ji, Richard
Hi All, I needed some help here involving shareplex. We run two databases (an OLTP type, and a repository type) on the same E10K domain which has 8 CPUs and 8GB of RAM, using Hatachi SAN (RAID 5). Shareplex is being used to replicate a table from the OLTP type to the repository. The current

FW: urgent help: replication, shareplex

2002-09-30 Thread Ji, Richard
recipients of list ORACLE-L (E-mail) Subject: urgent help: replication, shareplex Hi All, I needed some help here involving shareplex. We run two databases (an OLTP type, and a repository type) on the same E10K domain which has 8 CPUs and 8GB of RAM, using Hatachi SAN (RAID 5). Shareplex

faster refreshes of Datamarts;Shareplex;ETL;Asynchronous Replication

2002-07-11 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Hello guys, i was wondering if any of ull use Quest Shareplex for Datawarehouse ETL and/or Reporting instance. i am creating a data mart/reporting instance. The source database is a 7.3.4 on HP-ux 10.2 The destination(development) is 9i on Win2k. Still not figured out the platform for 9i

REPLICATION: Quest Shareplex

2002-06-12 Thread johanna . doran
Title: REPLICATION: Quest Shareplex Hi, I changed the Subject to SHAREPLEX, lets close out the contention thread. Could be why there are no responses. A couple people on the list definitely use it and I know I certaintly will have a lot to say about it but have to do it later as I am

RE: REPLICATION: Quest Shareplex

2002-06-12 Thread johanna . doran
Hi, I changed the Subject to SHAREPLEX, lets close out the contention thread. Could be why there are no responses. A couple people on the list definitely use it and I know I certaintly will have a lot to say about it but have to do it later as I am working on Prod issues right now

SharePlex Questions

2001-09-21 Thread Mike J Kurth
I am evaluating SharePlex and I have some questions: In the current release, do the foreign key constraints need to be disabled in the target database? Doesn't it take a while to enable the foreign keys during failover? How did you handle switching the users over to the target database? Push

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