Re: Load balancing between an RAC database cluster and Top Link

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:31:22 -0800
Message-ID: <1075221022.206553@yasure>

Andrey wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1075139741.411046_at_yasure...
>

>>Andrey wrote:
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>>>Dear Greg! Excuse me my ignorance, but what epochal project do you work

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> for?
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>>>Configuration you describe seems to me very expensive and hard to

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> deploy.
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>>>Even without possible problems with JDBC and all this Java stuff, such a
>>>monumental design (3 db, 4 app servers !) strucks me as overcomplicated.

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> Do
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>>>you setting up some cross-continental Internet banking solution? Or will

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> you
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>>>introduce some sort of ASP to be offered to us, humble users?
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>>Sorry Andrey ... but exactly where do you work and doing what? Your
>>comments seem to come from the standpoint of having had little or no
>>experience with 7x24 high availability operations. There is nothing at
>>all difficult to deploy about what Greg wrote. It is a pretty common
>>architecture.

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> Daniel, Brian Peasland admits that this is not really cheap solution, so I'm
> totally lost. I will wonder if you or Sybrand will not tell that this is
> DIFFICULT to deploy if someone will ask "is it difficult?".

Brian is correct. I didn't say anything about 'cheap' I said 'nothing at alldifficult to deploy'. Perhaps you are lost because you didn't read what I wrote.

It is all right above the paragraph your wrote. I trust you know the difference between cost and difficulty. As I asked above and which you didn't answer ... what is your actual level of expertise in HA? My assumption from your lack of response is that it is minimal.

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