Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Mark Townsend wrote:
>in article 3ad40e47.2871849_at_news-server, Nuno Souto at
>nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam wrote on 4/11/01 1:07 AM:
>
>> On 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.
>>>
>>
>> Bugger! You mean I can't use it on a normal 9i database (no web)?
>> Darn! there goes my cunning 3-tier performance plan. :-)
>> Oh well roll on 9i and let's see what's really inside it then!
>> Couldn't care less about OAS caches, quite frankly. Data or page.
>> Still, a nice idea.
>>
>Sorry - should have been clearer - you can use the Data Cache with any
>Oracle client - web, forms, reports, Pro*C, ODBC, what have you. You have to
>install Oracle9i Application Server to do so, however (Note: Not
>OAS).
>
>So logically it looks like Client -> Data Cache -> Database (8i or 9i).
>Physically this can be 1,2 or 3 tiers, although having the Data Cache on the
>same box as the Database doesn't make much sense.
>
>I'm pretty certain that the first release only caches data from one back end
>database - i.e any distributed queries are performed at the database end,
>not in the Data Cache.
>
>The other cache in Oracle9i Application Server, the Web Cache, does cache
>only HTML. So it looks like: Browser -> Web Cache -> JSP/Dynamic HTML/Static
>HTML -> Data Cache (optional) -> Database
>
>Confused ?

Not as confused as the parent of those kids you're supposed to be babysitting .. :-) Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 11:56:07 CDT