RAC, SELECT FOR UPDATE, connection pools
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:46:18 -0600
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I'm wondering if I could get a little more detail about what Martin listed below:
'"select for update" as soon as a user modified data. This was in a connection pool... That obviously wasn't too great.'
I'm supporting a 10.2.0.2 env on Linux, involving a 4-node RAC with matching DG. It's an OLTP db with app servers using connection pools, where I'll see unbalanced batches of connections coming in (2000 on 1 node, 80 on another), which eventually even out across the servers. I also see frequent "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE" statements.
I'm relatively new to this env and really struggle in getting details on how the apps are working, so when I saw the quote above from Martin I figured I'd jump at getting more details on other's experiences with this type of situation.
I think to start I'm just looking for issues you've run into, as again, I get very little detail out of the app team in terms of what they're doing and how things are configured.
I realize this is really directed towards Martin Bach, but I figured I'd post to the group in case anyone has a similar setup. I'm pretty much having to reverse engineer the whole app to know what's going on, which is such a treat. :-(
Thx.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Martin Bach
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Cc: veeeraman_at_gmail.com; 'Guillermo Alan Bort'; 'Thomas Roach'; 'ORACLE-L'
Subject: Re: RAC for dev env
I can only second that email from Mark!
Developing against single instance when prod is RAC - I can't count the number of times I have seen developers code against single instance Oracle (and maybe even a subset of production data only), release the new code which then promptly fails to scale/work in RAC?
I dealt with an application development "framework" once that dynamically changed to "select for update" as soon as a user modified data. This was in a connection pool... That obviously wasn't too great.
Also don't forget that you might actually _have_ to invoke DR and then you could be hit big time for not running in a RAC configuration. I only hope that has been figured into the equation or somebody from high up acknowledges that.
Regards
Martin
-- Martin Bach OCM 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach On 02/03/2010 08:44 PM, Mark W. Farnham wrote:Received on Fri Feb 12 2010 - 07:46:18 CST
> So I believe your management dictated constraints are: RAC for prod,
> single instance databases for everything else.
>
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