Re: yipeee!

From: Anton Versteeg <anton_versteeg_at_nnll.iibbmm.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:32:50 +0100
Message-ID: <40211EB2.804@nnll.iibbmm.com>

Sure,
DB2 Parallel database has this function since many years.

Niall Litchfield wrote:

>"Rob Cowell" <rjc4687_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:40211355.94A43A97_at_hotmail.com...
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>>>And that I thought Oracle had some facility
>>>such that we could cluster and load-balance two+ nodes running
>>>something like Parallel Oracle so that should a node need booting
>>>or modifying off-line the application is still running (at
>>>reduced capacity) for the users.
>>>
>>>
>>Oracle Real Application Clusters
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>http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.show_toc?partno=a96597&remark=drilldown&word=real+application+clusters
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>Just to add to that, if you are writing the app from scratch RAC also
>supports a technology (transparent application failover) where users
>connected to a node that fails will failover to a running node without
>dataloss and without being disconnected from the application. I am unsure if
>IBM have a similar technology
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-- 
Anton Versteeg
IBM Certified DB2 Specialist
IBM Netherlands

Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 10:32:50 CST