If you want to practice with RAC (and read some plain English installation
instructions to boot) have a look at two papers on the Files link of
www.oaktable.net by Harrison Redhouse. I find them quite good.
Regards
HJR
"Angie" <angie_kong_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:AtXE9.2662$Sb.1146_at_nwrddc04.gnilink.net...
> Thanks to all who replied. I am really grateful for the rational tone of
the
> responses and for pointing out some of the errors in the document. I will
> check with my colleagues and seniors further on this but it looks like any
> changes to our plan will likely be minimal which is good since I was one
of
> the main contributors to the original plan. :-)
>
> I have tested Sql's failover clustering which is pretty easy to setup.
> However, I've read the setup instructions for RAC 3 times and I'm still
not
> entirely confident I fully understand the process. I've installed a bunch
of
> 7x, 8x and a couple of 9i standalone servers but never RAC or OPS. Will
give
> it a shot next week and see how it goes. If successful I'll post my
> experience. Hopefully, that will help others who are lightweights like me.
>
> Again, thanks for the great responses.
>
>
> --AK
>
> "Angie" <angie_kong_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OWDE9.28936$hi6.3773_at_nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> > I was at Oracle World over a week back and got a free cup of coffee with
> the
> > following URL http://www.microsoft.com/sql/getmore which is mostly
> > uninteresting marketing stuff. One thing that did catch my eye was the
> paper
> > on RAC http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/compare/oracle-rac.asp.
> >
> > Would appreciate your thoughts on this so that we may decide if we need
to
> > alter our 2003 plans. I know it's hard but please keep to the facts and
> save
> > the slams for another day (yes, we all enjoy them but please, not today,
> > thanks). We use several databases apart from Oracle and biased opinions
> > doesn't help us at all. Really appreciate your time on this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --AK
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 27 2002 - 02:37:43 CST
