[Building Sakai] Oracle 11g support

[Anthony Whyte]

This suggests to me that you could be running Sakai 2.7.0/2.7.1 on top  
of Oracle 11g.  Methinks we need a QA server running Oracle 11g to  
support Sakai testing.

Anth

> 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.




On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Drew Zhu wrote:

> 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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