"David Williams" <djw_at_smooth1.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bimcm9$ibn$1_at_news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> "Quarkman" <quarkman_at_myrealbox.com> wrote in message
> news:6f2ab2f8.0308280024.6607163f_at_posting.google.com...
> >
> > Raj: RAC is not cheap. Period. You can't do it on the cheap, as the
> > Oracle licence alone is going to set you back tens of thousands of
> > dollars. Add to that interconnect redundancy, hard disk raiding and
> > everything else... well, you just can't do RAC cheap.
> >
>
> What if I want to learn RAC at home? How can I ever get experience
> for a job if I cannot play with it at home? This is the next cool
Oracle
> thing to learn but I need to set it up at home and I'm not paying that
> much. Does Oracle think we are all as rich as Larry?
If you want to play at home and you have linux then take a look at the
unbreakable.pdf on www.oaktable.net which contains both useful information
on RAC and details on how to set up a play environment.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 02:56:39 CDT
