Re: Oracle RAC cost justification?

We are going with RAC now due to business needs. We are a medium bank, ~100 branches, and we are going to implement an imaging system for checks.
All the checks are sent to the information center, and are scanned and the images are put in Oracle db.
Each morning about 3-4 people in each branch needs to go over the checks that were issued against the accounts they manage. Then they OK or reject the checks.
If the server goes down during that period all hell breaks loose. So we are going with RAC and TAF, since most of the work is reading data from the database.

Oh, the database is on a SAN, with real time copy to DR site, over fiber.

Adar Yechiel
Rechovot, Israel

Larry Elkins wrote:

>And though it strays a bit at times, but not very far, I've found this
>thread very interesting, even if it is 28 emails so far (more now I
>suppose). I am very interested in what people are seeing in the real world
>regarding RAC, and why they chose it, why they like/regret it, and
>alternatives that have been considered. So yeah, I don't know diddly about
>RAC ;-) That's why I find this thread interesting, it is very educational
>;-) I can read all the docs and white papers until I'm blue in the face but
>real world takes on it are nice to hear.
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>Regards,
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>Larry G. Elkins
>elkinsl_at_flash.net
>214.954.1781
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