On Sunday, Mar. 9th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

Update - all patching is completed and databases are up and available.

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On Sunday, Dec. 15th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, Oct 27th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will be patching the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, Sept 15th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, June 2nd, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, March 3rd, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, Dec 3rd, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

Update - Disruptive activities are complete and all databases are available for teams to restore services.

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On Sunday, Sept 17th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

OIT DBA team will be performing database maintenance on Sunday 07/16 during the standard maintenance window.

The following systems will be briefly unavailable:

• Self Service Password Applications unavailable 8:00 am - 8:30 am
• MyPack Portal and integrated systems unavailable 8:30 am - 9:00 am

All databases and systems are expected to be available after 9:00 am.

On Sunday, June 11th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, Mar. 5th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the required quarterly patching on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

On Sunday, Dec. 11th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the quarterly patching required by Security & Compliance on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

In order to implement a change recommended by Oracle support to resolve performance issues, we are planning an emergency bounce of the EXA20 server at 3:30 pm today. This bounce will be done in a rolling fashion one node at a time in order to minimize impact but there may be services that need to be cycled in order to reconnect to the databases.

Update: All systems including RPT are available for use.

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Update: MyPack Portal and all production systems are available for use.  The FORPT and HCRPT systems are still in progress. We anticipate that they should be available within the next hour.

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MyPack Portal and other connected systems, including SIS, HR, and FIN (CSPRD, HCPRD, HCRPT, FOPRD and FORPT) are migrating to new hardware on Sunday, November 13 and will be unavailable beginning at 6:00 am.   Please reference the following document for database connection information:  http://go.ncsu.edu/oracledbconnect.  We anticipate all systems to be fully available before the end of the maintenance window at 1:00 pm.

All maintenance activities are complete and systems are operating normally.

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On Sunday, Sept 11th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the quarterly patching required by Security & Compliance on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

The rolling restart was completed and all database services are now available.

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As part of the recovery efforts from this week's disruption in service, the OIT DBA team will be bouncing the Production Oracle database server to clear any lingering database issues. The server bounce will be between 5:30 am - 7:00 am Sunday morning during the standard maintenance window. Any systems dependent on Oracle databases may be unavailable during this time.

Update: Patching was completed on schedule and all databases are available. Please report any issues to the OIT DBA team.

On Sunday, June 12th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the quarterly patching required by Security & Compliance on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

Update: maintenance is complete and all databases are available.

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On Sunday, March 13th, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the quarterly patching required by Security & Compliance on the Production Oracle database server. The non-production patching has already been completed with no issues. Systems dependent on Oracle databases will be unavailable during maintenance.

Update: the maintenance has been completed without issues and all services are available.

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On Thursday, Jan 20th the field engineer will be coming on-site to perform maintenance on our production Oracle database server. This maintenance is not expected to cause any outage to our database services.

On Sunday, March 14th, during the regular maintenance window, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the quarterly patching required on the Production Oracle Data server.

Systems dependent on Oracle databases may be unavailable during the maintenance window.

On Sunday, December 13th, during the regular maintenance window, the OIT DBA team, in coordination with Oracle's Platinum services team, will begin the quarterly patching required on the Production Oracle Database server.

Systems dependent on Oracle databases may be unavailable during the maintenance window.