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Re: Can you spread a database across multiple servers?

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-family_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:29:20 GMT
Message-ID: <QX3G6.63894$xN4.4654966@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>

No. And if you can don't do it. It will be an unsupported configuration and very unstable and risky.
Jim

"Calvin Crumrine" <Calvin_Crumrine_at_dced.state.ak.us> wrote in message news:3AE89263.E5640A34_at_dced.state.ak.us...
> 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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