Re: OnLine 6.0 experiences

In <3b1tn7$bc@nanette.pdb.sni.de> Tom Hogarty <hogarty.pad@sni.de> writes: > I have to say that I am not happy with OnLine 6.0, one hates to > offend a respected partner ! I have to explain to my wife that this > weekend is out because the system has to put back to OnLine 5.x. > I have to tell my bosses that OnLine is not ready to fill our > expectations in a way that OnLine 5.x did. I am disappointed > with OnLine 6.0. I would advise you to consider again any planned > move to 6.0. In any case, don`t plan any holidays directly after the > upgrade. Whew, you sure saved my head... We are (were) contemplating exactly such a move (limited test, full convert) on our production system -- eek. Some questions I still have, though, that you would probably be in a good position to answer -- how long does the database conversion itself take? Does it intelligently allocate space for the larger indices, or just use the existing extent space and add more extents if needed (blech)? I'm sure our circumstances are different, but maybe give relative speed measures -- is it just a drop-index--build-index? Or...? We have many and large indices, and I need some time estimate how long we'll be down while they rebuild (once we do it, at some future date). -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."