Re: Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) on Sun Cluster

From: Jeffrey Boulier <jeffreyb_at_gwu.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:32:49 GMT
Message-ID: <ldrq5.4635$J7.43165@grover.nit.gwu.edu>

In article <3989dc09_at_trc-tpanews01.trcinc.com>, Samuel P Howard <sam.howard_at_trcinc.com> wrote:
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>What other alternatives are there to OPS?

What do you want OPS for? Performance or fault-tolerance?

If performance, then you can buy a U10000. If fault-tolerance, then Oracle's HA stuff.

Note that OPS may need serious application tuning to work effectively. I took a large systems class from Oracle once, and one of the DBA's mentioned that he had a 6500 that ran a million transactions per day. When he added a second 6500 and switched to OPS, he could barely manage eighty thousand transactions a day. It took severe rewrites of the application to get performance back up to respectable levels. Received on Mon Aug 28 2000 - 05:32:49 CDT