1. Achieving Enterprise-Class Availability on a Standard Edition Budget
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2. The Environment

3. Oracle SE
RAC
OLTP, BI, reporting
I/O & performance

4. Daily reports at 12AM
Personalization
Ad hoc users
Analytic needs

5. OLTP priority
BI interference
Missed deadlines

6. A First Attempt

7. Physical standby
Close at 22:00
Apply logs
Final sync at 00:01
Open read-only

8. Scripted
Stagnant data
No dedicated indexes

9. Cold cache
Not RAC
In-scope for PCI

10. A Solution

11. Dell SharePlex
DBA familiarity
SE friendly
Low cost
Support

12. Implementation

13. Floating IP
Install
TNS
Configure

14. Activate
Recover database
RESETLOGS
Convert to RAC

15. Disable triggers, constraints
Create indexes
Drop what’s unused

16. Reconcile SharePlex
Start posting
Update permissions

17. Add to cluster
Monitor logs
Monitor processes

18. Benefits

19. Dedicated indexes
1/6 processing time
No I/O competition
No OLTP conflict

20. Live data (4-8 seconds)
Deep analytic availability
No longer in-scope
Quick to fix

21. Management

22. Cluster managed
Integrates

23. Shell scripts
Capture sync conditions
Auto-repair sync issues
Monitor event log

24. Future Use

25. Replicate to
SQL Server
SSIS
Hadoop
Mongo