RE: RAC, TAF, ... do they really work?

Jose,

>As far as I know, RAC enables a database to work in a cluster
>mode, making it to a node crash. The client connections
>attached to the dead node are lost, however, unless you
>configure the connections for TAF. The TAF mode rollbacks any
>transaction on the fly, giving an error. If you develop your
>code with TAF in mind, you can catch this error and re-run the
>transaction by means of the TAF reconnection.
>But, if you have tons of lines of code in tens of legacy
>applications, what can you do to take advantage of this
>stuff?. Is this technology, in its current status suitable for
>this scenarios?. Does it provide any benefit?

Murali Vallath had written a nice article in SELECT on this very same topic. If you have IOUG / SELECT member access, you can look this up at http://www.ioug.org (click on the SELECT link).

John Kanagaraj <><
DB Soft Inc
Phone: 408-970-7002 (W)

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