CHAPTER 16Developing Applications for RAC

imageracle Real Application Clusters can be used for any kind of application—from custom to off-the-shelf. An application that runs on a single instance environment can be directly ported to the RAC platform without making any major architecture or code changes, and almost all packaged applications can be ported to RAC when scalability or availability of the application is in question.

In simplest terms, an application vendor could install Oracle RAC on a cluster, install the application on top of it, and run the application without any loss in business functionality due to changes in database status (single ...

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