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Nuno
If you search through the newsgroup for RAC, you'll see a detailed explanation I sent of how this works. I'm too lazy to type it again so you'll have to do the search yourself! ;)
-- HTH. Additions and corrections welcome. Pete Author of "Oracle8i: Architecture and Administration Exam Cram" "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:3c5933b5.4683539_at_news-vip.optusnet.com.au...Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 10:00:01 CST
> Howard J. Rogers doodled thusly:
>
> >One word (OK, two then!): cache fusion. Transferring a block from one
node
> >to another is now around 100 times faster than it was in OPS, because
there
> >is no block pinging to disk.
> >
>
>
> I still can't get my head around that one... I know it is supposed to
> have been verified to work, but I'd like to see it. Not the 100 times
> bit, the no block pinging bit.
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam