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Re: Oracle 10g RAC w/Different Time zones

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:11:43 -0800
Message-ID: <1138986700.639922@jetspin.drizzle.com>


Rodrick Brown wrote:
> We have an issue maybe someone here can help me fix, I would like to
> implement Oracle RAC but each node in RAC require all nodes to be in the
> same time zone from my limited understanding with RAC, because of
> regulatory reasons some of my servers have to match the timezone of the
> market its handling requests for, the thing I have noticed with Oracle
> is that it will use the Time zone set by your Operating system, if we
> wanted to consolidate all of our database instances onto a RAC
> infrastrucuture how could we work around this issue?
>
> This is Oracle 10g on Solaris 10.

A RAC cluster can not extend very far geographically ... my recollection is not more than 50km (30 mi) and even that is expensive given the need for very low latency.

What applications are your running? Are they COTS or built in-house?

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Received on Fri Feb 03 2006 - 11:11:43 CST

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