Re: Can you spread a database across multiple servers?

NFS? Our NT books define that as Network Filing System developed by Sun. Nothing to do with my question as far as I can see.

Absolutely not interested in recommendations. Only thing I'm looking for is an answer to my question-If we're running Oracle on one Win2K server can we create a datafile that resides on another Win2K server in the network?

Andrei wrote:

> datafiles sitting on NFS will result in bad performance, plus NFS is
> not reliable.
> you can try looking into disk arrays and SAN.
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:11:52 -0800, Calvin Crumrine
> <Calvin_Crumrine_at_dced.state.ak.us> wrote:
>
> >If we have 2 Win2K servers, one running Oracle & one for our apps, and
> >we run out of disk space on our Oracle server, can we create a datafile
> >on the other server? Hypothetical question at this point-we're still
> >setting up our first Win2K server but our plans are to eventually have
> >2. The Oracle server's hard drive bays will be full while the file
> >server will have several empty bays. Should we plan on buying an
> >expansion chassis for the Oracle server, or can we use the empty bays in
> >the other server?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
>
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