On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 10:52, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> PLEASE NOTE -
>
> I worked at EDS for a while managing UNIX boxes on the front line.
> Oracle, even with clustering, did not always fail over or work properly.
> Many times it had to be manually failed over because the database didn't
> detect that one was down. In other cases, the drivers were hosed and we
> had to restart the entire application (on ~80 different boxes) to get them
> to point to the new live target.
>
> Don't believe the hype. It's just that - hype. It's better than nothing,
> but certainly not "unbreakable".
What (exact, if possible) version of Oracle?
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