Separate Focus HTML for Basic Foil 38 Data Partitioning in Oracle 7

Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 7 October 97

Foil 38 Data Partitioning in Oracle 7

From Second Part of RDBMS Discussion ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou

1	Oracle 7 on nCUBE2 and IBM SP2 are actually implemented as shared-disk (vs. shared-nothing) architecture See earlier discussion of sophisticated nCUBE implementation
2	Shared database by sharing disks through parallel file system or parallel I/O system: nCUBE -- the GFS (Global File System) over a Gigacache Subcube and nCUBE2's parallel I/O system; IBM SP2 -- VSD (Virtual Shared Disk) parallel I/O system (over the HPS)