Re: Distributed/Fault Tolerant DB operation... possible?

2003-06-19 Thread Rick Franchuk
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Michael Conlen wrote: > First get an acceptable outtage rate. Your only going to get so many > nines, and your budget depends on how many. The system will fail at some > point, no matter what, even if it's only for a few seconds. That's > reality. Figure out what kinds of f

Distributed/Fault Tolerant DB operation... possible?

2003-06-19 Thread Rick Franchuk
Hi guys, I've been doing some digging around and found some information about master/slave database duplication, but it always sees to focus on increasing query performance by spreading the db out. My situation is that there's a database which must absolutely, guaranteedly be operational 2