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  • Sites running RAC with more than four nodes

    I would like to know the reference sites that are running RAC with more than four nodes. 

  • RAC node scaling in DSS workloads vs. OLTP

    What are your experiences with RAC node scaling in DSS workloads vs. OLTP? Also, isn't the primary bottleneck in scaling out the overhead of the cachefusion lock management protocols, not the actual interconnect? 

  • Podcast: IOUG's Kaplan on what's hot at OpenWorld

    Oracle OpenWorld kicks off next week and IOUG president Ari Kaplan says RAC, grid computing and high availability will be some of the hottest topics of discussion among attendees. 

  • Podcast: Database guru previews Oracle OpenWorld

    Oracle database guru Mark Townsend talks about the highlights of next week's Oracle OpenWorld show. 

  • Risk involved in centralizing production servers

    At present we have five production servers, located at different locations in India. We would like to make them a centralized single server, and the process is going on. We are concentrating on connectivity issues and fall-back provisions. What are t... 

  • Transaction failover effectiveness

    How effective ia transaction failover? If I have session-specific variables set in my session on node 1, are they maintained and accessible from node 2 if node 1 goes down? (i.e., v$session.client_info, mode, action, temp_tables, etc.) 

  • NIC teaming for interconnect

    We have a three-node 9.2 cluster on Windows 2000 that we will be moving onto new hardware to be a two-node 9.2 cluster on Windows 2003, and I was interested in your thoughts on NIC teaming for the interconnect, as I haven't found much at all out ther... 

  • RAC for performance, D/R and integration with SAP R/3

    What's the deal with RAC and performance? What is the implication of using RAC for D/R? Are there any issues with using RAC with Oracle integrated with SAP R/3? 

  • Does RAC scale horizontally for OLTP?

    Does Oracle RAC scale horizontally for a high-transaction OLTP database? There is an ongong debate that it can only scale horizontally to a max of four to five servers without generating deadlocks and bottlenecks in the interconnect. 

  • Oracle overhauls Sleepycat's original Berkeley DB

    The new version of Berkeley DB, the embeddable database Oracle acquired along with open source stalwart Sleepycat Software, promises better performance and the ability to do upgrades on the fly. But does Oracle really have open source street credibil...