Re: Experiences of Parallel Server on Oracle8

In article <ROxo2.4601$xq4.1231_at_news.rdc1.ne.home.com>, granaman_at_not_home.com (OraSaurus) wrote:
>In article <77shqj$ljv$1_at_news3.Belgium.EU.net>, "Patrick Nobels"
> <patrick.nobels_at_ping.be> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>We use OPS in Oracle 7 and have a lot of problems because the sync of the
>>instances is done via disk (pinging).
>>We are told that this problem will be solved in O8 due to changes in the
>>sync mechanism. In stead of sync via disk the instances will exchange data
>>memory to memory.
>
>Not exactly. The fusion cache is not implemented in the current production
>versions of Oracle8. As of OOW98 in mid-November it was a "Future direction"
>of parallel server. Slated for 8.1 perhaps.
>
>-- OraSaurus

And futhermore...

The key to parallel server is partitioning. For read-only systems (DSS, Datawarehouse, ...) it is less critical. For OLTP it is quite critical and should be addressed in the application design.

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