Re: Multiple instances with exclusive server?

From: Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 09:21:09 -0700
Message-ID: <372DCCF5.24EFD4E2@us.oracle.com>

One small expansion on this. In some versions (I haven't checked recently to see if this is the case with 8.1.5 on my NT box) the software actually checks for the existence of a cluster when installing OPS. If it doesn't find one, it says "Sorry, you can't install this without the OS cluster software".

HTH. Pete

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> One instance uniquely manages one database. So two instances for the same
> database is impossible without parallel server. While there are no
> restrictions in this respect (in theory you could have two parallel server
> instances on one server), this is not advisable: it will require two systems
> also.
> If the purpose of this action is tuning consideration, you should tune the
> init<sid>.ora first. Parallel server will impose extra overhead.
>
> Hth,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
> Zoltan Holdampf wrote in message ...
> >I've asked to create two instances for the same database.
> >Can I do it without parallel server?
> >
> >
> > Zoli

Regards

Pete

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