On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:41:37 -0600, Mark A interested us by writing:
> I just saw a TV advertisement for Oracle Grid on a cable news channel. It is
> be marketed as continuous availability solution. How does this differ from
> RAC?
Grid is for computing resources.
RAC is for database resources.
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Grid is at the application level.
RAC is at the data level.
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What happens if you web server goes down?
What happens if your database goes down?
The two are complementary. If you want very high availabilty, you want
both.
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Hans Forbrich
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Received on Tue Jun 14 2005 - 08:45:52 CDT
