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Record loading period: No other big database projects June 15-Sept.1

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:16:12 -0800 (PST)

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System resources during database merger

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The Orbis and Cascade databases will be merged in the summer of 2003. From

mid-June through August, records will be loading from Cascade into Orbis.

Data from all Cascades local systems will be loading simultaneously, over

multiple links. Central catalog system resources will be strained.

INN-Reach software works continuously in the background, copying

transactions at the local site to the union catalog. Orbis member library

transactions will still be processed while the Cascade records are being

loaded. To minimize loading delays and potential problems, transactions

need to be limited to "regular" daily library activities, such as local

circulation, cataloging new materials, and updating individual records.

--- NO MAJOR PROJECTS should be scheduled during this period. --- We hope

that this notice provides you with ample time to plan work so that it can

be completed before this period, or postponed until the load is completed.

** No local database projects June 15 - Sept. 1 **

We'll certainly let you know of any schedule changes that will allow more

leeway in scheduling your local projects.

Examples of projects to avoid: batch or global updating to correct large

groups of records, and batch purges to delete item, order and

bibliographic records. For libraries that contract with vendors for

authority work: receiving a file of updated headings can impact thousands

of records in the local system, which are all re-sent to the central

database; these projects ned to be avoided as well.