Re: What if the Network goes down?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:39:46 -0800
Message-ID: <1172277586.2707@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Chuck wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:

>> bradmadigan_at_gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been currently hired to take a legacy FoxPro application and
>>> convert into a new application using Oracle.
>>> One of the stipulations (and FoxPro being flat file based was good for
>>> this) is to keep business transactions moving along even in the case
>>> the Network goes down.
>>>
>>> Is there a tool that Oracle provides in such a case?
>> How being flat file affects networking eludes me ... but the solution
>> is to use the following technologies:
>>
>> 1. Zoning
>> 2. NIC Bonding (also known as teaming and multipathing)
>>
>> Essentially you duplicate all paths to everywhere so that you can lose
>> any switch or any NIC card or any piece of copper.
>>
>> Again ... how FoxPro can protect you from losing a NIC card eludes me.

> 
> IIRC Foxpro ran locally on the PC so no network was necessary. I think
> what he wants is the ability to enter data locally on a PC and replicate
> to a central server whenever the PC connects to the network.

That may be what he thinks he wants ... but I highly doubt, at least from my read of the post, that this is what management is thinking.

My suspicion, perhaps unjustly, is that the OP doesn't understand Oracle and thus is making statements that don't compute.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Fri Feb 23 2007 - 18:39:46 CST