Re: Larry Ellison comments on Microsoft's benchmark

In article <396B9DF8.B56513FC_at_ca.ibm.com>, srielau_at_ca.ibm.com said...
> The poster said the query FAILS, he did not mention wrong results.
> Having some query fail because a machine is down and others work and
> return
> the correct results sounds usefull to me...
> What happens is that DB2 will try to send a request to the failing node
> and aborts the whole query when it figures the node is down. DB2 will
> only send requests to nodes that have data that it needs, so it can
> still maintain limited (and correct!) operation when a node fails...

But how can you know that the data you want is all on the working machines? Received on Tue Jul 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT