Chapter 17. Application Development

In this chapter, we investigate RAC-specific development concepts. We begin by discussing some RAC-specific development topics, including identifying instances and services, memory and disk considerations, and node affinity. In the second part of the chapter, we examine some advanced RAC pro[(H1F)]gramming techniques and the concepts underlying them, including Transparent Application Failover (TAF), Fast Application Notification (FAN), and the Oracle Clusterware High Availability (HA) Framework.

RAC-Specific Development Considerations

In this section, we discuss some general RAC-related development topics, including the following:

  • Instances and database services

  • Multiple SGAs

  • Local and shared storage

  • Node affinity ...

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