Oracle Database Migration and Disaster Recovery Services

Oracle Migration and Upgrade Support

We help our clients perform database migrations and upgrade to new versions of Oracle products (we support Oracle 7, 8, 9i, 10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1, and 11gR2) when they switch hardware platforms. This involves:

1. - Conducting interviews with our clients and checking their current setup
2. - Presenting migration methods, migration schedules, and modifications
3. - Assisting with preliminary tests (to the extent allowed by both our and our client's testing environments)
4. - Helping to create migration tools (scripts)
5. - Comparing/verifying databases before and after the migration

Deliverables:

1. - Migration assessment report
2. - Work repor
3. - Data migration tools (if scripts were created)

Migration and upgrade tools:

1. - Oracle export and import utilities
2. - Oracle Data Pump
3. - Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA)
4. - Oracle Data Guard
5. - Oracle GoldenGate
6. - DBMoto

Oracle Contingency Planning

We propose, design, and build disaster recovery solutions that have been optimized for our client's Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). In addition to ordinary Oracle design and implementation tasks, our services include:

1. - tests for expected failures
2. - recovery procedures
3. - maintenance procedures
4. - upgrade design

We support the following system configurations:

1. - Basic standby database
2. - Oracle Data Guard
3. - Remote backups with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
4. - Remote replication with Oracle Streams or Oracle GoldenGate
5. - DBMoto