Re: Oracle 8i - books and references

I thought that when you want to go PARALLEL you have to consider locking mechanisms at hardware level.
That is if you have 4 pentium running in parallel and sharing memory, there must be a way to lock data in turn for each processor. (DLM) At Oracle level, there is the same mechanism, hence "pinging" blocks....
On the other hand, Linux is supposed to be written by nethelpers. Are there advanced enough Linux programmers to garantee mission-critical Oracle Parallel databases?? I remember a time not so long ago when Linux did not even have a decent lp daemon.
But why not?
I'd be glad to know the answer.
I mean it's more a question on zeroing on the right hardware platform than on the right Linux distribution.
jbmorla_at_calva.net

On Wed, 05 May 1999 22:44:57 -0400, Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>"Michael B." wrote:
>>
>> I am interested in Oracle and parallel servers on Linux, so I have ordered a
>> copy of Oracle 8i with Parallel Server Option.
>>
>> What books do I need to get started? How many (if any) of the expensive
>> Oracle books do I need?
>>
>> I need to install to Linux and to install parallel server properly. Which
>> books (if any) would help with that?
>>
>> Will the docs (if any) that come with the Oracle 8i be sufficient? I tend
>> to think not.
>>
>> Are the Oracle books worth the money?
>>
>> Michael
>Of course that manuals are worth the money. It's the only officially
>sanctioned
>literature. Parallel server is supported on Linux?????? On SUN, the
>clustering
>software from SUN Microsystems is needed and you need special hardware
>adapters,
>Veritas volume manager, dual hosted RAID boxes and some other things.
>Are you
>sure that there is parallel server for Linux? Where do you get DLM?
>--
>Mladen Gogala
>
Received on Thu May 06 1999 - 17:07:14 CDT