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CEO's Connection
Are You Another Casualty of the Oracle RAC War?
by Rob Gardos, CEO
There are big benefits to having a clustered database infrastructure. Pooling together the processing power of inexpensive, commodity servers to do the work of a big box is cost |
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effective, incrementally scalable and inherently highly available. So what is holding back the proliferation of Oracle RAC? Can't I deploy and manage this cluster just like a Web server farm? Isn't that the whole point? more >> |
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Featured Article
You probably DO need RAC
by Matthew Zito, Chief Scientist
As strange as it might sound, this is an exciting time for databases and DBAs.
The model of relational databases has remained fairly consistent over its lifetime - the servers may be bigger, the SQL more complicated, and the |
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database sizes larger, but there's always been a fairly standard model of operation. However, there has been a shift over the last few years that will forever change the database landscape. more >> |
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Ask the Expert - Mr. Database
This month's question:
Dear Mr. Database:
My Oracle database is starting to outgrow my current hardware - how should I respond?
Paul
Vancouver, CA
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August Webinar
Is Your Data Stuck in the Dark Ages: 5 Things Your Company Needs to Modernize Data Center Operations
12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST, August 22, 2006
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