We are currently in the process of migrating to RAC. I've been going through otn docs, white papers and discussions on 10.2 TAF, Load Balancing and the use of Services, however I think I am a liitle confused. Here are my questions: 1. From what I understand, server-side load balancing is set up when you configure the listeners to register with each other (remote_listener init parameter). Can you please explain how this works with connection pools compared with individual/short lived connections? How does Runtime Connection Load Balancing integrate with this (or does it?)? 2. What would be the effect of enabling (10.2) TAF for Oracle Forms/Reports applications? 3. Is there any difference between TAF policy set up through client tnsnames, dbms_service, srvctl, EM? 4. Has anyone played around/worked with Database Services to partition your multiple instance database based on type of application? Please share your experience. 5. Also, I noticed that if I created and started a service using dbms_service, it doesn't show up when I do a "srvctl status service" nor in DBCA. I am able to see it in lsnrctl status though. And I am able to connect remotely using the service. When I create it with DBCA, everything looks fine. Would there be any differences in function/performance? Thanks!! -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l