Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is the first database designed for grid computing, the most flexible and cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. It cuts costs of management while providing the highest possible quality of service.
In addition to providing numerous quality and performance enhancements, Oracle Database 10g significantly reduces the costs of managing the IT environment, with a simplified install, greatly reduced configuration and management requirements, and automatic performance diagnosis and SQL tuning.
These and other automated management capabilities help improve DBA and developer productivity and efficiency. And with Release 2, Oracle’s focus on improving efficiencies and reducing the cost of information management continues.
Oracle Database High Availability
Databases and the Internet have enabled worldwide collaboration and information sharing by extending the reach of database applications throughout organizations and communities. Both small businesses and global enterprises have users all over the world who require access to data 24 hours a day. Without this data access, revenue and customers can be lost, penalties can be owed, and bad press can have a lasting effect on customers and a company’s reputation. Building a high availability IT infrastructure is critical to the success and well being of all enterprises in today’s fast moving economy.
One of the challenges in designing an HA solution is examining and addressing all the possible causes of downtime. It is important to consider causes of both unplanned and planned downtime when designing a fault tolerant and resilient IT infrastructure. Unplanned downtime is primarily the result of computer failures or data failures. Planned downtime is primarily due to data changes or system changes that must be applied to the production system.
Click on the following for a further explanation of what the critical high availability solution areas are, why they are important considerations for building a highly available solution, and what are Oracle’s offerings in each of these areas.
Oracle Backup and Recovery
Backup and recovery is one of the most important aspects of database administration. If a database crashed and there was no way to recover it, the devastating results to a business could include lost data, lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction. Whether companies operate a single database or multiple databases storing hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of data, they share one common factor - the need to back up important data and protect themselves from disaster by developing a backup and recovery plan.
Oracle Real Application Clusters
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is an option to the award-winning Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. Oracle RAC is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications.
Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition includes Real Application Clusters support for higher levels of system uptime.
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