Re: Failsafe & Active Directory

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:11:58 +0200
Message-ID: <d71c0f$sbo$1@news.BelWue.DE>

bdbafh_at_gmail.com wrote:
> William,
>
> Failsafe was an Oracle 7.3 feature, IIRC.
> Perhaps you should research the topic of "Dataguard" instead.
>
> What version of the Oracle Database Server software are you dealing
> with?
>
> -bdbafh
>

As wrong as can be.

FailSafe is the product that makes Oracle compatible to the Microsoft Cluster Technology, which is a Share Nothing architecture. Basically what it does is provide an interface to the MS Cluster Service API, and it allows to failover the database to another node in the cluster if the node can not be reached.

Holger Received on Wed May 25 2005 - 03:11:58 CDT