Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

Your actually encouraging people to use Transparent Gateway? Kinda defeats the purpose of a cache, doesn't it?

Mark Townsend wrote:

> in article 9b1tln$srg2_at_imsp212.netvigator.com, CSC at jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk
> wrote on 4/11/01 8:36 AM:
>
> > Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:24:23 GMT Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_home.com> wrote:
> >> Oracle9i Data Cache is an Oracle9i Application Server feature (iAS). It's
> >> available now and works against an Oracle8i Database.
> >>
> >
> > Can I use Oracle9i Data Cache to work against other databases than
> > Oracle8i Database?
> >
> Funny, we were just expounding on this today in the office - the answer is
> yes. You would need an Oracle database (albeit with no data) to hold the
> metadata, and then a Transparent Gateway from this database to the
> datasource you want to cache.The cache would then pull the third party data
> through the linl. Cool.
>
> It's also interesting that VPD across a database link to a non-Oracle data
> source also works, as well as many other 'Oracle' only features. So in many
> cases you can actually apply an Oracle feature directly to non-Oracle data
> without actually having to store the data in Oracle. I can see the billboard
> now
>
> 'Every database in the world is actually an Oracle database' ;-)
  Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 08:03:38 CDT