CHAPTER 8Utility Computing: Applications as Services
You will hear the term “services” used often in Oracle Database 11g and in the realm of Maximum Availability. Although the concept of service is nothing new to the computing world, the concept of services in Oracle 11g needs to be explained in more detail. So, what exactly are services?
Services Concepts
Services are associated with an application’s front end, which needs to connect to the database on the back end. Services enable the virtualization of an Oracle database server from the application using it. Instead of connecting to a physical host, the application connects to a service name.
In the grid computing world, customers (end users) do not care where the application is going when ...
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