Re: tough choices

From: Ian <ianbjor_at_mobileaudio.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:27:57 -0700
Message-ID: <40d0c9ef$1_1@corp.newsgroups.com>

Daniel Morgan wrote:

>
> The main consideration I would think would be the overhead of federating
> data for DB2. The more data the more difficult and time consuming and
> the fact that losing nodes with RAC is an inconvience ... with DB2 you
> have a lot more to worry about ... and mean time between failures goes
> down, not up, as you add nodes.

Only if you don't configure DB2 in an HA environment. DPF by itself does not mean HA.

You can configure a DPF environment for HA, and once you've done this, losing a node is just an "inconvenience" as you put it.

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