Bert
The only way two have two instances accessing a single database is to use
Parallel Server (in 8.1, RAC in 9i) running on a hardware cluster. If you
don't have the hardware cluster, you need to look at ways of cloning the
database, including standby or replication.
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HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
Pete
Author of "Oracle8i: Architecture and Administration Exam Cram"
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"Sig Dock" <sigdock_at_MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
news:3B87D746_at_MailAndNews.com...
> Hi all,
>
> On the site where I'm working right now we have a Sun Fire 280 server with
a
> Symmetrix EMC disk cabinet. I have configured my (Oracle 8.1.6.) database
so
> it will put all the datafiles (including system, redolog and controlfiles)
> on
> the Symmetrix.
> To create a failover-mechanism I want a second instance on another Sun
Fire
> 280, connected to the disk cabinet, to use this. Is this possible and how
do
> I
> create this 'standby' instance? I don't want to use the Oracle
> standby-database because that will need al ot more diskspace and it needs
> more
> time to recover.
>
> rdbms is Oracle 8.1.6.0.0
> OS is Solaris 2.8
>
> Regards,
> Bert Jan Meinders
> Oracle DBA
>
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 12:48:52 CDT
