Hi,

Has anyone attempted setting up a distributed database using a server and a number of PC's ? The reason for doing this would be to harness the power of 10 PC cpus and 4 Unix server cpus. I would like to use the PC cpus because the Oracle licences for Oracle lite are much cheaper than for the Unix box cpus ($100's as opposed to $1000's). I would be interested to know if there are any white papers out there about setting this up and the different scenerios I would come across, for example, how to backup the database/s using this method.

Thanks for any help provided.

Dave.