Re: Q: Is Oracle 24*365 possible?

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:32:13 +0100
Message-ID: <938021995.24693.0.nnrp-07.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

Cold fusion doesn't help very much though, it only caters for consistent read blocks being produced at the 'owner' rather than pinging current blocks and rollback blocks to the requester.

Rapid update applications which don't
partition properly will probably be seriously hit by pinging.

Jonathan Lewis
Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Pete Sharman wrote in message <37E906D1.88973C57_at_us.oracle.com>...
>Dave
>
>Until you get to Oracle8, your application needs to trap the errors that
occur
>when the instance fails, then switch to the other instance. Applications
>developed with the Oracle8 OCI libraries can transparently failover.
>
>Not sure what you mean by the "common cause failure rate", but unless your
>application is designed specifically with OPS in mind, I wouldn't switch to
it
>without a good deal of up-front redesign work. This changes of course with
>Cache Fusion in 8i, but you're not on that release.
Received on Wed Sep 22 1999 - 12:32:13 CDT