Re: MULTI SITE REPLICATION QUESTION

In article <9g5561pbid66dfh2i09qmnusl9gqb2d1h0_at_4ax.com>, Lewis C says...
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>On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:38:01 -0700, DA Morgan
><damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
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>>Lewis C wrote:
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>>> RAC is not doable across states.
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>>I bleieve the longest distance RAC cluster so far implemented by
>>Oracle was 8km. So you might make it from Kansas City Kansas to
>>Kansas City Missouri ... but at what cost.
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>>For long distance replication from stand-alone or RAC I would
>>recommend DataGuard.
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>I hadn't heard of sites that far apart. That's huge. Do you know
>what kind of pipe they used?
>

google:

'stretch clusters'

in quotes... Actually, if you put it in 4 corners (where the corners of 4 states meet), it could work :) You could hit 4 states that way easily....

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