What Happens When an Exadata RAC Node Fails or Is Patched

A walkthrough of how Oracle RAC instances and database services behave when one database node (holding one RAC instance and two database services) fails or is taken offline for patching.

Oracle Database Services in (Oracle RAC + Oracle Data Guard) Environment

Introduction: We may classify the database services into two types of services : 1- Database Services 2- Cluster Managed Database Services Please note that: - The procedure dbms_service.start_service - used with the first type - is deprecated in databases managed by Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Restart with Release 11.2. While the procedure remains available in … Continue reading Oracle Database Services in (Oracle RAC + Oracle Data Guard) Environment