Re: Doubts on Data Guard and Replication

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:30:01 +1100
Message-ID: <41a41c52$0$20857$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

BlackBeltDBA wrote:

>>Could we perhaps kill this myth before it gets out of hand? There

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> *is*
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>>downtime with RAC...

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> Sure. Having no downtime is a goal - an expensive and elusive one.
> There is always some form of downtime (possible.) To implement that
> goal one starts talking about high availability, not 100% availability,
> and how many 9s of availability are feasible. What it means for the
> system to be available has to be carefully defined.

Thank you. My point precisely.

Regards
HJR Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 23:30:01 CST