"Rob Cowell" <rjc4687_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40211355.94A43A97_at_hotmail.com...
> > And that I thought Oracle had some facility
> > such that we could cluster and load-balance two+ nodes running
> > something like Parallel Oracle so that should a node need booting
> > or modifying off-line the application is still running (at
> > reduced capacity) for the users.
>
> Oracle Real Application Clusters
>
>
http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.show_toc?partno=a96597&remark=drilldown&word=real+application+clusters
Just to add to that, if you are writing the app from scratch RAC also
supports a technology (transparent application failover) where users
connected to a node that fails will failover to a running node without
dataloss and without being disconnected from the application. I am unsure if
IBM have a similar technology
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 09:56:23 CST
