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Oracle RAC troubleshooting advice and application migration tips

Brian Peasland, Contributor
04.22.2008
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Service provider takeaway: Service providers can simplify their customers' database consolidation efforts using Oracle RAC -- and they can stay ahead of the troubleshooting curve by following this advice.

For your Oracle-shop customers, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) -- which enables the combination of multiple database servers into one large cluster -- can bring important benefits, namely higher scalability and availability and easier database consolidation.

Beyond those high-level benefits, there are some specific features worth noting in Oracle RAC -- as well as some gotchas to watch out for at customer sites. We'll t

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ake a look at them all to make sure you can help your customers make an informed choice about RAC. We'll also give you RAC troubleshooting advice to handle problems that might crop up when integrating applications into an Oracle RAC database.

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About the author
Brian Peasland has been in the IT field for 18 years and has worked as a computer operator, operations analyst, systems administrator, application developer and finally a database administrator. He holds a B.S. in computer science and M.S. in computer science, specializing in database systems. See Brian's Oracle consulting website at www.peasland.net.

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