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From: Brant Cooper <bcooper@tumbleweed.com>
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Subject: partitioned? distributed? parallel? replicated?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:20:16 -0800
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I know what I want to do, but don't know which buzzword applies:
I have an application which sits between an http service and an Oracle
server.  I would like to "partition" the Oracle server in such a way
that two (or more) Oracle servers contain the same database, but
different data, segmented by some data value (e.g. account name, or
region).  My questions is what am I talking about, horizontal
distribution?  Aside from knowing (or not knowing) what I'm talking
about, is it possible to make this segmentation transparen to my
application, i.e. can Oracle manage the segmentation (perhaps via a
"gateway-type" process perhaps running on the application server?

Thanks for any thoughts on the matter!

Brant Cooper
bcooper@tumbleweed.com