This IBM Redbook explores the steps for installing Oracle 9i RAC in an IBM Eserver Cluster
1600. GPFS is implemented in the Cluster as the file system of choice for Oracle code and
database files.
Performance and availability considerations are presented to show system architects, system
I first encountered Oracle in 1982, in the process of evaluating database
management systems for a major commercial application that my company
was preparing to design and build. At its conclusion, our evaluation was
characterized inComputerWorldas the single-most “grueling” study of DBMSs
that had ever been conducted. The study was so tough on the vendors whose
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These additional practices are provided as a supplement to the course Introduction to Oracle9i:
PL/SQL. In these practices, you apply the concepts that you learned in Introduction to Oracle9i:
PL/SQL.
The additional practices comprise of two parts:
Part A provides supplemental practice in declaring variables, writing executable statements, interacting
with the Oracle server, writing control structures, and working with composite data types, cursors and
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