Re: Taking database offline

Hello

>Not really ... users (old or new) should not work with the db unless it's
>completely loaded. Restarting the server will affect activity in other dbs in
>that cluster which is not desirable :(  IMHO, there should be a way to do this
>without restarting the server.
>
>
What about having two database clusters on a server for separating HA
from "not so HA" databases? You can take down one db cluster. And people
can still work on the other one (DB Cluster does nothing has to do with
hardware or os cluster).

I know it is not so simple. I worked out a concept for this and need
some alpha-Testers?

Regards Oli

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Oli Sennhauser
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