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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Has anyone heard of "Mirror Accessible"?
Yeah,
The CEO needs to be "anonymously" informed that he needs a CIO with a higher degree of intelligence and technical expertise. The current one is a waste of flesh.
--Scott
> There seems to be a bit of confusion here. RAC is not related to
> "standby database". DataGuard is the big enhancement for standby
> databases in 9i. RAC is the name for the 9i incarnation of OPS
> (Oracle Parallel Server.). If the "database to be mirrored", then it
> is completely independent of OPS/RAC - which shares a single database.
> It could be a standby database, geo-mirroring, ...
>
> The term "mirror accessible" sounds like it came from one of those
> pseudo-technical trade magazine articles that are famous for
> misinforming senior IT management. ;-)
>
> -Don Granaman
> [OraSaurus]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:10 PM
>
>
> > Jay - I did a search on Google and that returned nada, so I don't
> believe
> > that "mirror accessible" is a bona fide term. However, looking at
> your words
> > "Oracle has a product . . . database to be mirrored for reporting
> purposes",
> > he might be referring to Oracle9i's Real Application Clusters.
> > In the Oracle 8i incarnation, there was a limitation with a standby
> > database. The standby could be made current by applying the redo
> logs from
> > the production database (using recovery), then opened and used for
> > reporting. But you couldn't have both - currency and reporting. I
> think I
> > heard that with Oracle 9i RAC this limitation has been bypassed so
> you can
> > do reporting while the logs are continuing to be applied. Don't take
> my word
> > for it (this is Friday after all), but you might want to look at
> RAC, and
> > maybe someone more knowledgeable than me will respond on this list.
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:47 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > My CIO woes continue. My manager has been told by the CIO that
> Oracle has a
> > product called "mirror accessible" which allows the database to be
> mirrored
> > for reporting purposes. He wants us to use this product.
> >
> > Now I'm familiar with the EMC solution, Quest's Shareplex, Oracle
> Standby
> > and Oracle Replication but he says it isn't any of these. Any idea
> what he
> > might be talking about?
> >
> > Jay Miller
>
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-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Scott Shafer INET: sknd100_at_yahoo.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).Received on Sat Dec 01 2001 - 12:00:07 CST
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