Moving to Zero-Downtime Maintenance
Hanging out with customers is always fun, but I had a particularly good time yesterday hosting a webinar with Juliet Draper, senior DBA for Lookout. The topic was “Closing the Maintenance Window,” and Juliet had some great insights about managing the process of database patching, schema updates, and other tasks.
The ability to sustain failovers – both planned and unplanned – is one of ScaleArc’s most significant advantages, and Juliet went right to the heart of what that means for her life. “I’d much rather do maintenance at 2 pm than 2 am. I work faster, I make fewer mistakes, and I’m not so grumpy!”
The best part of the webinar was her reaction during the demo when our Sam Rafail took both database servers in the cluster offline – she got downright panicky. But then she watched the ScaleArc software queue the queries and forward them on to the server after Sam restored it – all with zero app errors.
Transparent failover, with no app errors. It’s a whole new world – with the ability to patch in daylight now. Give a listen to the webinar and see what it could mean to your organization to move toward zero-downtime maintenance.
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