Re: Oracle 10g RAC performance

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala.SPAM_ME.NOT_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:52:26 GMT
Message-ID: <pan.2007.04.28.01.52.26@verizon.net>

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:48:53 -0700, hpuxrac wrote:

> There's a reasonable smart guy who wrote "Why you probably don't need
> RAC" ... there's somebody who is clued in to the real world.

Pushing RAC to everybody is, at least in my opinion, a very dangerous policy yet Oracle is doing just that. RAC is not a solution for everything. One would think that they would learn from IBM, DEC and Microsoft but, apparently, not so. I usually explain the concept like this: if you have a car capable of taking 4 people across 55 miles in 1 hour, then adding a second car, chained to the first car, bumper to bumper, will not help you with taking 4 people across 110 miles in 1 hour. Buying a faster car (and a radar detector) will. That is precisely what people are trying to do: making their apps running twice as fast by adding a second node, chained to the first in bumper to bumper fashion.

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