Re: Q: Is Oracle 24*365 possible?

Jonathan

I think you mean cache fusion rather than cold fusion don't you?

I only mentioned it briefly because the original poster wasn't on the right release for it anyway. And of course, the read-read scenario is addressed in the next release. ;)

Pete

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> Cold fusion doesn't help very much though,
> it only caters for consistent read blocks
> being produced at the 'owner' rather than
> pinging current blocks and rollback blocks
> to the requester.
>
> Rapid update applications which don't
> partition properly will probably be seriously
> hit by pinging.
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
>
> Pete Sharman wrote in message <37E906D1.88973C57_at_us.oracle.com>...
> >Dave
> >
> >Until you get to Oracle8, your application needs to trap the errors that
> occur
> >when the instance fails, then switch to the other instance. Applications
> >developed with the Oracle8 OCI libraries can transparently failover.
> >
> >Not sure what you mean by the "common cause failure rate", but unless your
> >application is designed specifically with OPS in mind, I wouldn't switch to
> it
> >without a good deal of up-front redesign work. This changes of course with
> >Cache Fusion in 8i, but you're not on that release.

Received on Wed Sep 22 1999 - 14:41:56 CDT