High availability and scalability in oracle RAC 11g
High availability and scalability: * As a dba most scraiest word or scariest area is down time we need to expertise in this particular ares. *in that down time is the test to dba capcity only we can resolve by expertise and practice comes into picture at that time we can't google how do fail over and switch over? reason of downtime:: *as planned down time for os level paramter or the server team doing migaration old into new hardware Planned Down time *Its for doing hardware or software level ex: applying patches ,Server Hardware Upgrade,Server maintenance. Unplanned downtime: * 1)computer failure - our server completely blast,before the computer failure data failures causes the downtime. Types of downtime:: *storage failure- let us take harddisk is data stored its totally gone *site failure - due to some natural disaster our production server is gone *Human error - someone deleting the data from database *corruption - one block or sector are corrupted in h...