Gee, that's a lot of absolutes. Especially considering I didn't say what
I'm using these servers for, what the purpose of the network is or who the
users are.
"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:52:35 -0500, "Van Messner"
> <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote:
>
> >Among the various answers was the information I needed. Thanks. I did
> >oversimplify the case since I was interested in what to do with the
member
> >servers which are not getting their IP addresses dynamically - they're
> >fixed. The DNS services are installed and running, as Chris said. As
for
> >Sybrand's reply, it's hard to know what to make of it. The Oracle
databases
> >on the PDC were installed under the (local) administrator account and run
> >just fine with multi-master replication. Maybe he's had some bad
> >experiences with replication.
> >
> >Van
> >
> >
> >
>
> You shouldn't have your CPU cycles running away by having Oracle run
> on a PDC. Processes contact the PDC, PDCs and BDCs are constantly
> synchronizing, etc. So you will simply won't have that server for 100
> procent at your disposal. Also if you need to bring down the server
> for Oracle associated reasons, you will bring down the PDC.
> I think it is very strange not running Oracle from a PDC has to be
> justified. If you know NT and think a few secs about it, you know you
> shouldn't do this. But then again, you better shouldn't run NT.
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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