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June 4, 2008
Oracle Databases
Things have settled down quite a bit on the Oracle database scene. The hardware glitch on Sundown has been fixed, so the goal now is to keep AERO and the web server up except for necessary scheduled maintenance. We had a nice meeting with the systems people regarding the backup process. I ordered a reference book on RMAN backups, and will be refining our backup strategy as the next db project. We currently maintain RMAN backups for AERO, but there is a need to coordinate these backups with the tape backup process.
The 10gR1 instance now has the food service application and Viking running on it. The Viking users were quite anxious to get moved to 10g to take advantage of some of Viking's newer features, but Viking will only run on 10gR1 with a specific character set (not the default set). By coincidence, that character set is the one our existing 10gR1 instance uses. Michael Ellis moved Viking over last week. So, Viking got upgraded and also that frees up a server for us to use for a test 10gR2 instance. Dale and I will be working on that in the near future. We need to remove the 9i instance and install a 10gR2 (or 11??) instance there. Well, we don't ever have a shortage of interesting things going on with the Oracle databases!
Posted by rossm at June 4, 2008 7:36 AM
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