Re: How is geographically distributed database implemented?

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 23:33:06 +0100
Message-ID: <cbaa6vcirdfff46na4chkj8485qp256ef6@4ax.com>

On 4 Mar 2003 13:46:00 -0800, ernestsiu_at_yahoo.com (Ernest Siu) wrote:

>As stated on subject line, how is this done for national corporation
>that has database that spread across the continent while only having a
>'single' image of database that need to be realtime accessed by user
>that are so wide spreaded? Basically I'm referring to having multiple
>servers that is capable of reading/writing to the same database on
>distributed locations (e.g. couriers, airliners)? How is this being
>implemented today? To me, this is like one data image, hundreds of
>cities, thousands of people accessing it. How is it done???

Advanced replication.

Parallel Server isn't a product for a WAN, and SAN/NAS are also no WAN products

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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