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8. High Availability

Charles Bell1  
(1)
WARSAW, VA, USA
 

Database administrators and systems architects who manage infrastructures understand the need for building in redundancy while keeping maintenance chores to a minimum. One of the tools used to achieve this is a class of features that make the server or service available as much as possible. We call this high availability.

Not only is high availability a key factor in establishing robust, always ready infrastructures, but it is also a quality of robust, enterprise-grade database systems. Oracle has continued to develop and ...

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