Two instances for a single database targeting Oracle 10g on windows platform

Hi all,

Database: Oracle 10g (Server)
Operating system: Windows XP SP2

Now, i want to create two instances for a single database, is that possible?

With RAC yes, of course that is possible....but normally working on:

Steps i followed:

1. Created one more instance with ORADIM utility.
2. The same is displayed appropriately in services.msc
3. Copy/pasted the init.ora file and updated the new copy/pasted db_name to 'ORCL2' where in by default the original init.ora file had db_name as 'ORCL'


Instance ORCL2 is not recongized.....

Please help,

Regards,
- Sri

you cannot do that and what is the point may I ask?

thanks

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Originally Posted by venkata_sri

Now, i want to create two instances for a single database, is that possible?

With RAC yes, of course that is possible...

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So you think Oracle invested tons of money and time developing RAC just because they had nothing better to do?

my brain! my brain! LOL

And do you think all these people who are buying RAC do not have any clue?