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RE: database replication setup help

Posted By: Justin Killen
Date: Thursday, 23 May 2013, at 4:03 p.m.

In Response To: Re: database replication setup help (Art Kagel)

Art,

I'm sorry if I offended, that was not my intention. I see your contributions to this community and I respect your advice and opinions. I am quite certain that I am just simply misunderstanding some core concept (in my defense, IBM has done a pretty good job of providing an abundance of acronyms and options as to make everything complicated IMHO).

So then, when you say I can continue to process transactions, you mean that the primary HDR at HQ continues to run, even in the event that the connection to an HDR secondary/RSS is severed, and that any nodes connected to the now disconnected HDR secondary/RSS will work for read requests but get an error on write requests. The question here then is what's the difference between an HDR secondary and an RSS? I thought the difference was that when applying a transaction, the changes were guaranteed on a secondary because it happens at the same time as the primary update, but for RSS it is not guaranteed because the change is delayed?

-Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Art Kagel
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:55 AM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: database replication setup help [30335]

First, you are misreading and combining two of my points. As relates to
RSS secondaries (same applies to HDR secondary BTW), I said: "If the WAN
goes down, you could still use the local RSS secondary at Site1 as a
read-only query server, but would have to get the WAN back up in order to
process updates (read that as transactions) locally again." I only said
that you could "continue to process transactions locally" with reference to
ER nodes where you might run into the conflict issues that you alluded to
in your post.

Now, I mentioned this when Larry said you could have two HDR secondaries,
but let me repeat it:

YOU CANNOT HAVE MORE THAN ONE HDR SECONDARY CONFIGURED AT THE SAME TIME!

After the one, single, lone, solitary (did I emphasize that enough?) HDR
secondary all other secondary servers have to be either SDS secondaries
attached to a primary server's disk drives or RSS secondaries which is what
you want to configure at Site1.

Art

Art S. Kagel
Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions
and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any
other organization with which I am associated either explicitly,
implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of
other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor
those of the entities themselves.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Justin Killen <
jkillen@allamericanasphalt.com> wrote:

> Art,
>
> You say "If the RSS or HDR secondary is writable, the writes are still
> happening on the primary" and then later "If the WAN goes down you could
> continue to process transactions locally". I'm confused by this - if all
> writes are happening on the primary, then how could I continue to process
> transaction locally?
>
> I guess my big question here is if I should be using an RSS at Site1 or an
> HDR
> secondary. I was under the impression that if I was using an HDR secondary
> and
> the WAN link went down, then the HDR primary at HQ would not be able to
> process transactions (insert/update/delete) because it could not sync with
> the
> offline HDR secondary at Site1 - am I wrong on this?
>
> -Justin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Art
> Kagel
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:53 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: database replication setup help [30329]
>
> OK, here are some points:
>
> - If the RSS or HDR secondary is writable, the writes are still
>
> happening on the primary (passed through by the secondary) and then
>
> propagate to the secondaries including the secondary the originated the
>
> write. There is no danger of the secondary getting out-of-sync with the
>
> primary and having local transactions that the primary doesn't know about.
>
> If the WAN goes down, you could still use the local RSS secondary at Site1
>
> as a read-only query server, but would have to get the WAN back up in order
>
> to process updates locally again.
>
> - If you make the secondary read-only, then you apps will have to be
>
> aware of that and either update the primary using distributed queries (ie
>
> access the table's using the primary's servername: insert into
>
> mydatabase@primary:mytable ...) or they could keep two connections open
>
> (assuming the host language supports multiple connections (ESQL/C, C++, all
>
> 4GL variants, and Java do) one locally on the secondary for reading and one
>
> remoted directly to the primary for updating. The writable option is
>
> actually preferrable.
>
> - You could use ER. If the WAN goes down you could continue to process
>
> transactions locally, but when the LAN comes back up then conflict
>
> resolution rules would have to resolve any problems caused by rows updated
>
> on multiple servers.
>
> - HDR and RSS secondaries will remain in sync for schema changes because
>
> all logical log records (which include all DDL commands) are propagated to
>
> the secondaries and applied there replicating changes happening on the
>
> primary. Only index builds are slightly different. They can be configured
>
> such that the secondary just gets notice of a new index and has to build it
>
> locally or such that the actual log records generated by the index build
>
> are sent over to the secondary replicating the index page-by-page. Your
>
> choice. Indexes built the first way, the default, will remain locked on
>
> the primary until the secondaries complete their build (unless the
>
> connection is down).
>
> - Flexible Grid is just a new internal communication protocol that lets
>
> you issue commands that are processed across all servers on a named grid.
>
> Those servers can be ER participants or independent servers. Prior to
>
> v12.10 this could only be used for ER commands and DDL. In 12.10 you can
>
> also distribute queries across the grid and return data from multiple
>
> servers with a single SELECT.
>
> Art
>
> Art S. Kagel
> Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com)
> Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/
>
> Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions
> and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any
> other organization with which I am associated either explicitly,
> implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of
> other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor
> those of the entities themselves.
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Justin Killen <
> jkillen@allamericanasphalt.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > For the last several years, we've been running an Informix database for
> our
> > accounting and production systems. We have two primary locations, which
> for
> > the purpose of this email I'll call HQ and Site1. Site1 is connected to
> HQ
> > over a WAN link (T1, etc), but we are investigating possible options to
> > change
> > this to use Informix's replication (mainly to speed up access). HQ and
> > Site1
> > both work on the same data sets, so in the event the line goes down, we
> > would
> > prefer Site1 be read-only to avoid any data conflicts. Additionally, we
> > like
> > to add redundancy in the HQ location to prevent down-time in the event of
> > server hardware failure, etc.
> >
> > After some research and reading, here's what we've come up with:
> >
> > HQ location:
> > 1 HDR primary server
> > 1 HDR secondary server
> >
> > Site1:
> > 1 RSS server (readonly)
> >
> > Does this sound reasonable?
> > When a program is run from Site1, and an update/insert/delete statement
> is
> > run, how do we set it up so that the statement gets sent up to the HQ
> > primary
> > transparently?
> > I read that schema change propagation only happens in Flexible Grid and
> > not in
> > ER, so when a schema change is made on the HDR primary, does it
> > automatically
> > propagate down to the secondary and RSS servers? I'm a little confused
> > about
> > the difference between Flexible Grid and ER and how they work together.
> >
> > Thanks In Advance,
> > -Justin
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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