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brizzel_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> hello everybody,
> there is a chapter about partitioning of large tables in the oracle8i
> documentation. Is it possible, to use partitioning across multiple
> servers for load balancing reasons or is this feature bound to a
> database on a single server. Is it possible to set up a general
> guideline when to use distributed databases, when to use parallel
> execution and when to use partitioning?
> Thanks
>
> Indu Keilitz
>
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Partitioning works on OPS, which means that you can use it across
multiple
servers. OPS is NOT a distributed database. What you want to achieve is
probably
available through the symmetric replication.
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Mladen Gogala
Received on Sun Aug 22 1999 - 21:47:17 CDT