Re: Parallelserver: What to think about?

From: Johnny Verhoeven <johnny_at_pentasystems.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:24:54 +0100
Message-ID: <36A5AEF6.6601@pentasystems.com>

Timo Feickert wrote:
>
> hello world,
>
> we are developing a standard client/server app, accessing oracle (7 or
> ms-sql) via odbc (over sql-net).
>
> one of our customers is thinking about purchasing oracle "parallel-server
> (enterprise edition)" and asks whether this is supported. are there any
> "specialities" we should take into account from the client point of view or
> is the type of server edition totally transparent to the client - as it
> should be?

It is transparent. OPS is two ore more instances running the same database.
the ODBC connects to an instance as before.

One drawback on OPS is, that comminucation between participating instances may go wild if the application is not well designed for OPS.
>
> any hints appreciated - tyia
>
> .Timo

Johnny. Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 04:24:54 CST