Re: 9i standby

Mark -

I saw the same presentation @ IOUG. Do you recall if they were running on the Compaq Alphas? A few days ago I recall someone saying that they would be wary of Oracle continuing support for Oracle on the Alpha chip, since Compaq has pretty much written it off.

Brian

Mark Leith wrote:

> I attended the Oracle 9i opening yesterday at Oracle HQ in the UK, and one
> of the main points they discussed about 9i, was the use of Real Application
> Clusters (RAC). Of course you have to be running on Compaq hardware at the
> moment, but it takes the need for a standby away, as you essentially just
> plug the standby in to the cluster, and make use of it's computing power,
> instead of having the standby just stood waiting for a failure..
>
> Just a thought..
>
> Mark
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> Anyone know if the standby in 9i can be in readonly mode while the logs are
> being applied? I've heard about this as being the case and also that this
> isn't
> the case.
>
> Thanks, Dave Turner
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