Re: Oracle 11g r2 one node RAC

From: zigzagdna <zigzagdna_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:42:29 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <f8e40013-8067-48fd-88a3-d93056dcb1e2_at_o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>

On Dec 28, 5:05 pm, newbie <rjngh2..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 10:30 am, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 25, 10:35 pm, zigzagdna <zigzag..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > snip
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> > > I am very confused with Oracle documentation..
>
> > > If one can run several instances of a database on One Node, then it
> > > adds value. For example, one instance can have init.ora optimized for
> > > OLTP, another instance of init.ora optimezed for DSS etc, still one
> > > has just one database and one Node. Both instances can ahve thier own
> > > ORALE_HOME, one can do rolling upgrades.
>
> > Why don't you setup a test environment and check it out?
>
> snip
> Both instances can ahve thier own> > ORALE_HOME, one can do rolling upgrades.
>
> snip
>
> Huh ?
> Are you sure you can do rolling upgrades ?
>
> I dont think so.

Whatever rolling uogrades RAC allows in multi-node environment, I think one should be able to do in one node RAC. I still do not know what is the value of one node RAC if only a single instance of database can be on one node. Received on Mon Dec 28 2009 - 19:42:29 CST