Sunday, May 20, 2007

How We Upgraded our Oracle 9i Database to Oracle 10g Database with Near-Zero Downtime

Dear all,

My article has been accepted and is published under Metalink's Customer Knowledge Exchange Program. The title of my article is "How We Upgraded our Oracle 9i Database to Oracle 10g Database with Near-Zero Downtime" and the Metalink note id is 431430.1.

Abstract of the document:

An Oracle database upgrade is a process of transforming an existing Oracle database into a later or the current release of the Oracle Database. This upgrade process normally requires a significant amount of database down time. This task of upgrade becomes more difficult for businesses which need to be 24*7 operational and any outage negatively affects business operations and customer service. In 24*7 organizations like Banks the database availability is so crucial that the downtime is bargained in minutes.

Minimizing downtime is a challenge every organization faces. With the advent of Oracle Streams, this challenge merely remains a challenge. Oracle Streams replication enables us to perform an upgrade with near-zero downtime. This is accomplished by configuring Oracle Streams on the existing Oracle 9i database which captures all the changes on the source database and replicates the changes to the target database (Oracle 10g). The rest of the document presents a step-by-step approach of setting the Oracle Streams replication and performing an Upgrade to Oracle 10g database.

Have a look at it and pass your comments.

Happy reading :)

Updated: 14 May, 2008

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6 comments:

  1. Moorthy GS2:09 PM, September 24, 2007

    Hey Asif,

    Greetings!!!

    I would like to read your article 'Upgrade 9i to 10g without downtime'. I don't have metalink credentials. Would you possible to send your article to my mail id.

    My mail is moorthygs@gmail.com

    Thanks in advance,

    Moorthy.GS

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  2. Unknown8:22 PM, September 06, 2008

    Hi Mohammed, I just finished excuting all the steps to upgrade an oracle 9i DB to oracle 10g DB...but I have a question, in page 15 "Set the schema instantiation SCN on the destination database" you mention the parameter 'recursive =>true' but in Oracle 9i(9.2.0.8) there isn't such parameter, in consecuence the replication fails..what can I do to resolve this? please please help me...this is my email: martha.murillo.datum@gmail.com

    Thanks in advance,
    Martha.

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  3. Unknown3:25 AM, September 13, 2008

    I have solved the problem with the parameter recursive...I guess after the patch (9.2.0.8) it wasn't change all the packages instantly I mean without restart. So I can say now that it do works properly...congratulations...it is well done.

    Thank you.
    Martha

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  4. Unknown12:39 PM, April 08, 2009

    Salaam Allekum Asif Bhai
    As i don't have a metalink access credential,I would appreciate if you can send me your article on my email.

    Please find my email id below.
    lethalcustomer@hotmail.com

    Awaiting for ur mail.

    Allah hafiz

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  5. Chandu Singh12:51 PM, March 17, 2010

    Hi
    Its very nice to hear that with near zero downtime to 10G. Can you please send a copy of the document to my mail id chandusingh.dba@gmail.com. As i don't have the metalink account.

    Thanks.

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  6. hari5:29 PM, September 21, 2011

    Hi Asif,

    To be frank this blog is awesome and simply excellent..i saw 9i to 10g database with zero time...But,when i check metalink i do not find it..can you please forward the docu to my mail id:
    toharish8@gmail.com
    Thanks in Advance

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