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Weeks of work...

After spending weeks working through the information from the course Oracle RAC/Grid/ASM and spending lots of hours, both in the office and from home working to achieve our logical swap goals, we get sucker punched by our outsourcing partner. They had just dropped the bomb of their new rates for providing the computer center and some services. A wopping five hundred percent increase in fees. All neatly rationalized but there is very little hope that we can achieve any growth with this overhead. So eight months of work came to a grinding halt. We still need to spend time in splitting the application layers from the database layer, but after that we are all full steam ahead looking for a new data center and service providers. It took the team a while to get over the let down of not being able to perform the logical swap and run produciton in the other data center. Amazing how such a thing can hit you. You'd think we'd be relieved at not having to do this particular project a