CHAPTER 11 Real Application Clusters

In Chapter 4, we presented an overview of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle Managed Files (OMF) and how they can ease administration, enhance performance, and improve availability. You can add one or more disk volumes to a rapidly growing VLDB without bringing down the instance.

In Chapter 6, we talked about bigfile tablespaces and how they not only allow the total size of the database to be much larger than in previous versions of Oracle, but also ease administration by moving the maintenance point from the datafile to the tablespace. Chapter 16 will focus on Oracle Net, providing you with the basics for ensuring that your clients can reach the database servers in an efficient and prompt manner. ...

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