Re: Is RAC really HA on Linux

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:27:46 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c897040913072745955d09@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:11:41 -0400, Stephen Evans <evans036_at_mc.duke.edu> wrote:
> i hope i addressed this right - its my first post.

looks like it!

> i am looking at RAC to provide an HA environment on Linux (most likely
> Redhat AS3)

I think I'd view RAC as a scalability solution for Oracle rather than an HA solution. You still only have the one database with RAC, what happens if that DB suffers a failure?

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