Re: RAC and DataWarehouse

JEDIDIAH wrote:

> Even an NFS mount to a NetApp (a dubious choice at best) will
> include RAC specific gotchas. Based on Oracle IO recommendation, any
> NFS solution is going to be woefully inadequate for DW.

Many of Oracle's internal databases use this technology. Why is it adequate enough for Oracle but inadequate for Oracle's customers?

> In a room full of people that actually have deployed RAC, NFS
> (even the netapp branded variety) typically doesn't come up.

In a room 'fool' of people? ;-)

Probably because most of the those people haven't been paying attention to Oracle. Most DBAs still backup their databases using shell scripts too.

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