Re: Question about BEQ/IPC

From: Oleg Tsibulnyak <tsibulnyak_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:08:18 GMT
Message-ID: <7k5q8q$oe6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

> I was told that if you run sqlplus from the server where the database
> resides, you don't need a listener process running. This will use BEQ.
> However, if you do have a listener running, with parameters for IPC,
> then you will use IPC.
>
> My question is, why would you use IPC? If I have user workstations
> that use TCP/IP, then all I should need is a listener with parameters
> set up to listen for TCP traffic. Any server activity can use BEQ. I
> wouldn't even need to set the listener up for IPC.
>
> There must be some advantage of IPC over BEQ. Could anybody shed some
> light on this?
>

BEQ doesn't support connecting via shared server (Multi Threaded Server).

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