Re: Oracle Clustering: RAC vs FailSafe

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:46:45 +0200
Message-ID: <956fdv4q272h9njp2f9q7kfv8v19e7tbdu@4ax.com>

On Fri, 30 May 2003 14:42:56 GMT, Charles M. Goehring <cgoehrin_at_san.rr.com> wrote:

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>We are covered by a site license for 9i and RAC and will be running on
>Windows 2000 Advanced Sever. Hardware is Dell with a Dell SCSI RAID
>box. The system includes Apache Web Server and Apache Tomcat.
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>Deciding on RAC vs FailSafe and have several unanswered questions:
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> Can both be operated without having to use Archive Log mode? I
>thought FailSafe was based on using this, but now I'm not sure.
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> Is RAC Guard a separate product or is it included with RAC? I
>can't find it listed as a separate product on the Oracle Web site.
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>Help is greatly appreciated
>Chuck

Neither can be operated without running in archivelog mode. It is a myth archivelog mode has any impact on the performance of the database. If there is impact, it is usually a sign the archive log process hasn't been (properly) tuned.

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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