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Ricardo Augusto
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Hello,

We improved our infrastructure and now we have a main database ( SQL Server 2008 ) and a fail over partner.

The DBAs shared to our java coders the new connection string to handle if main db fails.

Does anyone know how can I implement that on WebFOCUS Reporting Server ( metadatas ) ?


Thanks

Ricardo

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MartinY
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If I understand properly, you now have a DB that will take over if the main one "crash".

I may be wrong, but you should have nothing to do.

In WF you define an "adapter" which point to a server (who has to be a DNS instead of the physical IP), then if the main DB crash, it should have an automatic take over from the other DB (the fail over one) and that one should have the same DNS name. So it should be transparent for WF.

We have something similar here with High Availability where I only have one connexion string (adapter) that point to a DNS and once a month the network team switch the "live" server with the "backup" server and I see nothing.

But I may have misunderstood your question or have answered wrong.


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Ricardo Augusto
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Thanks Martin,


But using a DNS host, we will need some intervention to set it to the proper working server.


DBA provided this lines to be used on java applications:

lappend SQLServer_DB_Definition_1 {serverName hostA.mycompany.com}
lappend SQLServer_DB_Definition_1 {failoverPartner hostB.mycompany.com}


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MartinY
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Yes it may need some work to define the DNS but it will have to be done once.

Except if I'm wrong, using the DBA info, you may need to update those lines of code (if whenever something change) everywhere they will exist while one place will have to be changed (DNS) with the DNS solution and it won't be "your" call: no effect in WF/java code.

I'm not an expert on that question, but I don't need to be a Einstein to see that the solution must reside as closer as possible of the source...


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j.gross
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If it's really just a matter of toggling the CONNECTION= value in the access files of the synonyms, the value can be globalized, and you can engineer the profile that establishes the && variable to determine which connection to use.

That's a standard practice to avoid textual changes when migrating synonyms across environments, and can be utilized here as well.
 
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Ricardo Augusto
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Brillant j.gross,

I guess that will solve my problem as my reports will be called from a java application and they will know which is the main database server.

Do you think local variables can handle that?

thanks


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