Re: SQL Server on Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:13:52 +1100
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It is only logical for Microsoft to add another platform for SQL to run on. If oracle, mysql, and a whole host of other databases can port to Linux and windows, surely Microsoft has the resources to do so. They have their cloud to beta test and iron out most issues so if they want to they can launch with a stable product
As for RAC...I am fairly confident that Always on technology goes a long way in replacing RAC within requirements of most shops.
Jack van Zanen
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> NUMA may not be supplanting RAC, but private clouds are definitely making
> RAC less appealing. Why scale out with RAC, on an application that may or
> not be RAC friendly, when you can just throw more memory and CPU onto your
> virtual machine?
>
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> NUMA does not supplant RAC. NUMA is a chip architecture parts of which has
> now been incorporated into SMP processors. We ran RAC on NUMA boxes from
> Sequent which IBM later purchased and hence we moved to AIX on Power. The
> hardware fault tolerance goes back to vendors like Tandem which I think
> Hewlett-Packard purchased.
>
> SMP is a share everything type of design while NUMA shares everything only
> within the socket (for lack of a better technical description) and then has
> to talk to the other processors when outside resources are needed.
>
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> On 03/10/2016 12:08 PM, Robert Freeman wrote:
> > SQL Server still does not have anything like RAC though, does it?
> Good question. There is a whole architecture which more or less supplants
> RAC. It's called "NUMA" and Oracle's high end T5 boxes use the technology.
> Other examples are HP SuperDome and IBM xSeries servers. You have a single
> system image, and a tolerance of a single point of failure, which is built
> into the NUMA machines. I am not sure on which technology would I place my
> bet.
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