Re: Replication in databases

From: gym dot scuba dot kennedy at gmail <kennedyii_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:27:59 GMT
Message-ID: <zG7vk.219$Af3.7@trnddc06>

"M2Y" <mailtoyahoo_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:d7dd0037-cf32-4da7-8744-69a4264d86d3_at_1g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have the follwing doubts. Can someone plz explain or provide
> details:
>
> Regarding Multi-master replication:
> What is it? How can we do this in Oracle?
> What is shared between them?
> How the replication is done?(log shipping, transaction
> shipping, ...)
> On failover, what happens to a client's connection?
> Does the failover transparent to the client? I mean, does the
> client need to reestablish the connection to another server and the
> current uncommitted transactions are lost.
>
> Master-slave replication
> What is it? How can we do this in Oracle?
> What is shared between them?
> How the replication is done?(log shipping, transaction
> shipping,
> On failover, what happens to a client's connection?
> Does the failover transparent to the client?
>
> Thanks,
> Srinivas

Have you looked at the docs? You can download them for free at otn.oracle.com. Try that first.
I think you are mistaking replication with RAC, 2 very different things. Jim Received on Tue Sep 02 2008 - 04:27:59 CDT

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