Re: Oracle 10g RAC Question

Joel Garry wrote:

>
> That Oracle uses the word instance with more than one meaning,

Undoubtedly true, and enough said. I tend to block my ears at the "other" uses. They all seem to involve slightly dodgy n-tier stuff rather than good old fashioned backend servers. Sounds like a job for a developer to me!! <g>.

Now I see what you were getting at.

Regards
HJR
> sometimes when a database is not involved.  It appears to be derived
> from the more general instantiation, which is just the memory
> structures.  I still haven't seen an Oracle definition of an instance
> when no database is involved, or to be more precise, when any database
> that might potentially be involved (such as SSO or Portal) is
> another instance potentially far removed with it's own memory
> structure, plus background processes, which accesses and manages
> another Oracle database...
Received on Thu Oct 07 2004 - 21:00:53 CDT