Well our Oracle 10g DB seems to be getting better each day. The final core element came together today as we got the DADs configured properly and tested. We had made an incorrect assumption to begin with, which caused us to waste some time chasing a problem we still can’t explain. After starting again from the beginning all seems well.
I’d say there is probably only 1 or 2 more really big things to figure out before we can start doing some real live testing. One of those is incremental backup – but I’m sure I’ll talk more about that when we have it figured out.
All in all, it wasn’t as tough as I thought it’d be, and I’m very pleased that we are getting this far. We will probably start the 2nd half of our training thursday or friday, which should fill in the last few knowledge gaps and make us much more comfortable having a live 10g DB in the near future.