Hi Jaffar, Please read the below document... http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/rac.920/a96600/haconfig.htm#1035287 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:58:22 +0300, Jaffar_DBA <sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello RAC gurus, > > I have following basic doubts about RAC as we are going to implement > 10g RAC on AIX 5L. > > Q1. We are using midleware software 'texudo' to connect our databases. > My question is, if one of my node get down, or fails, will be my > activie session or connections automatically redirects to another > node? If yes, then, if I am doing some query and in middle of my query > I get this problem, then the other node will carry out from where > other node got disconnected or it starts from frist again? what > happens if my session doing DML? > Q2. Can I have two nodes with different configuration in terms of > hardware , like cpus and memory or both nodes should be idential? > Q3. How RAC will maintain the load balancing? Will it distribute the > load parallely or distribute the load according to the node capacity? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l