Re: two-task

Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote in message news:<cw2dc.21609$J56.17392_at_edtnps89>...
> Cupofjava1961 wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me what two-task is and what is it's function?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> IIRC, the term started around Oracle version 5. The following is based on
> memory ...
>
> Prior to Oracle5, a common way of having an application interact with the
> database was to use the database kernel more as a library which you linked
> to your application. The app and the database were bound and no separate
> 'instance' was used. The application and the database ran in the same
> process space and were said to be a 'single task'.
>
> Two-task was used to refer to the operational mode where your process (task)
> and the instance's 'shadow' process (task) that was dedicated to your
> process communicated using a method like SQL*Net.
>
> Now two-task simply implies a dedicated server rather than multi-threaded
> server operation.
>
> /Hans

Note - the current 9.2/10g terminology for what was MTS or mutli-threaded server is Shared Server.

Just another terminology change to confuse the issue(s).

• Mark D Powell --