Re: Oracle 10g RAC Question

Dusan Bolek wrote:

> My advice based on my experiences with RAC is never use RAC, if there
> is any way how to do the job without it! If you're unable to tune your
> single instance database, then on RAC you will not be able to tune it
> at all. It is true that you can use different SGAs parameters on each
> instance, but you will also encounter new challenges related to the
> cluster environment. So probably it is not going to help at all.

My advice, based on experience at little organizations like The Boeing Company, AT&T Wireless, and Amazon.com is that RAC is wonderful when properly implemented and produces great scalability with costs far below that of SMP.

If you are having problems I can put you in contact with a consultant that can help you: Just contact me off-line.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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