%0 Journal Article %T Data Guard: A New Approach For Disaster Recovery & Rolling Upgrades %A Auf Akhtar %A Syed S. Rizvi %A Laiali Almazaydeh %J International Journal of Database Management Systems %D 2010 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Though we already had a standardized way (from Oracle) for Disaster Recovery policy, a major crash of the PLMdatabase made our DBAs to come up with a proposal to execute a procedure using Data Guard together withOracle Transportable Tablespace which resulted in the successful and timely migration of the PLM Productionfrom Oracle 9.2.0.3 on HP N-Class to Oracle 9.2.0.5 on HP-Superdome in just 8 minutes. This same procedurealso gives a fast, reliable way to upgrade from Oracle9i to Oracle Database10g with minimal downtime. And futuredatabase upgrades get even easier using Data Guard 10g Rolling Upgrades. %K Oracle Data Guard %K database %K disaster recovery %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijdms/papers/0210ijdms3.pdf