[Building Sakai] Oracle 11g support

[Drew Zhu]

Massicotte Steve wrote:
> Hi Drew,
>
> Are you in production with Oracle 11g ?
>   

No, we are not in production on 11g. The rule of thumb for upgrading for 
us is "don't do the upgrade with release 1". Since Oracle 11gR2 just 
came out on September (not for Solaris yet), we have not done the 
upgrade yet.

> If not when are you planning to do it ?
>   

Yes, with the release of 11gR2, we will plan the upgrade starting from 
development and test databases. Because the primary Oracle support for 
10gR2 will end on July, 2010, we are likely to do the upgrade in 
production before July, 2010. Since you are going to go live production 
on September, it may be better to start with Oracle 11gR2 now so that 
you don't need to through the production upgrade after going live.

Regards,
Drew Zhu

> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Drew Zhu [mailto:qszhu at umich.edu] 
> Envoyé : 28 septembre 2009 15:12
> À : Massicotte Steve
> Cc : sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Objet : Re: [Building Sakai] Oracle 11g support
>
> Drew Zhu wrote:
>   
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Since SAKAI uses few (if any) Oracle specific features, it should be 
>> safe to use 11g with
>>     
>
> I meant without problems here. Sorry about that typo.
>
> Drew ZHu
>
>   
>>  problems. Usually, Oracle supports old version 
>> features after adding more new features to the new version. So, there 
>> should be no risks with running SAKAI on 11g.
>> University of Michigan had done some load tests with 11gR1 and there was 
>> no problems with running SAKAI on 11gR1. Now, with the release of 11gR2, 
>> more and more organizations start to work on the upgrade.
>> Pay attention to the password. 11g has option (default) of password case 
>> sensitive while the password was not case sensitive with earlier 
>> versions, including 10g.
>> If you start the production on 2010 September, the best option would be 
>> 11gR2 anyway because the Oracle primary support for 10g ends on the end 
>> of July.
>>
>> Hope that can help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Drew Zhu
>>
>> Massicotte Steve wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Is there a date for the support of Oracle 11g ?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Is there someone using Oracle 11g in production ?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Do we put us at risk by using 11g even if it's not support ?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> We are planning for a pilot deployement in May 2010 and a larger
>>>
>>> deployement for September 2010 and we are checking which version of
>>>
>>> Oracle to use.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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