Oracle Global Data Services for Mission-critical Systems: Maximizing Performance and Reliability in Complex Enterprise Environments

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2. Introduction to Oracle Sharding

Y V Ravi Kumar¹  , Mariami Kupatadze² and Sambaiah Sammeta³

(1)

IRVING, TX, USA

(2)

Bethesda, MD, USA

(3)

Flower Mound, TX, USA

 

In this chapter, we’ll cover Oracle Sharding technology along with Global Data Services (GDS), and we will describe the benefits of sharding and high availability. We’ll also cover methods that can be used in this type of architecture.

We will also introduce the GDSCTL commands used for Oracle Sharding, with all the possible options and arguments.

We’ve also included an “Oracle Sharding ...