Re: Oracle Grid

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1118726622.951778_at_yasure...
> GRID and RAC are two totally different things with little or no
> relationship to each other.
>
> One can have GRID without RAC
> RAC without GRID
> Or both GRID and RAC
>
> RAC relates to the clustering of servers such that a single database
> connects to multiple instances. GRID has to do with repurposing and
> instrumentation of Oracle instances and servers.
>
> That Oracle has once again botched communicating this to its customers
> is no surprise. They have been doing this for more than a year. But I
> am glad that the concept of advertising has finally dawned upon them.
>
> I would suggest that you visit http://otn.oracle.com and find the white
> papers on these two different yet compatible technologies.
>
> HTH
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan

So if one wants the highest level of continuous availability for OLTP (no parallel queries), what is the best solution (RAC or GRID) and the pros and cons of each.

It seems to me that RAC has been marketed as the best continuous availability solution on Oracle.

Regarding past statements about GRID (I read the old threads), I got the impression this a new and/or improved version of GRID. Received on Tue Jun 14 2005 - 00:29:48 CDT