Yes, it can, but it is very complex. It is a way to have high availability
(two machines, one set of shared disk drives.); it is possible to scale
better with it, but you have to partition the application and data carefully
or you lose the advantage.
You can set it up on NT. Regardless of the OS, it is very expensive and
complex to setup and maintain.
Jim
"Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote in message
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> Dear All,
>
> The document mentions one database can have multiple instances (parallel
> server), but I have no experience of this setting, I wonder:
> 1.Why does one database need multiple instances at the same time?
> 2.Will it make the implementaion very complicated?
> 3.Is parallel server specific to Unix and doesn't work for Windows NT/2K?
> 4.Can you show me an implementation example, if it is useful?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dino
>
>
>
Received on Sat Sep 09 2000 - 22:58:41 CDT
