E-Commerce, ERP, B2B, and B2C applications are already a dominant category within business due to the widespread use of the Internet. This wide adoption of e-business by companies and the public has resulted in a huge accumulation of data in the enterprise. Supporting these applications 24X7 has become a mandatory requirement for the success of a business as a whole.
It is very common for thousands of concurrent users to access the application and the associated database system. As a result of an increased number of users, the workload pattern has become almost unpredictable. There may be sudden spurts of business activity at any time. Oracle 11g RAC database is a perfect solution for these challenging business applications, providing both high availability and ability to scale out in response to increased workload.
In this chapter, we will look at the Oracle 11g suitability for the mission-critical application deployment and the guidelines to achieve it. In...