This white paper is Oracle’s response to the statements contained in IBM’s white paper, ‘A Technical Discussion of High Availability and Crash Recovery’. This paper compares Oracle9i Database with IBM’s DB2 and presents the advantage Oracle 9i Database has over IBM’s DB2 in respect of the high availability and data protection.
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