From: "Jonathan Lewis" Subject: Re: Oracle Parallel Server and 24x7 availability Date: 2000/06/06 Message-ID: <960320222.10430.4.nnrp-06.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jlcomp.demon.co.uk:158.152.75.41 References: <_C8_4.231578$Tn4.2063175@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com> <960305947.21689.0.nnrp-09.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk> <8hjhi0$egk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 960320222 nnrp-06:10430 NO-IDENT jlcomp.demon.co.uk:158.152.75.41 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net My usual skill in typing there - I don't just swap letters, I swap whole words. That should have read 'Are you', not 'You are'. Thanks for the welcome - my ISDN card blew, and I've been surviving on a mobile phone for weeks trying to find time to buy a new one. -- Jonathan Lewis Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Thomas J. Kyte wrote in message <8hjhi0$egk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >In article <960305947.21689.0.nnrp-09.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>, > "Jonathan Lewis" wrote: >> >> You are thinking of 'cache fusion'. >> This is a feature to reduce pinging due >> to read/write contention, not write/write. >> > >I think Bob was referring to a new 8.1.6 configuration option of OPS >for high availability... > >This is known as "Basic High Availability Configuration" or >"Primary and Secondary Instances". See >