5 Workload Management with Dynamic Database Services

This chapter describes how to manage workloads in Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) to provide high availability and scalability for your applications. This chapter includes the following topics:

• Using Oracle Services

• Service Deployment Options

• Connection Load Balancing

• Fast Application Notification

• Transaction Guard for Improving Client Failover

• Application Continuity: Automated Replay for Masking Outages

• Load Balancing Advisory

• Enabling Clients for Oracle RAC

• Distributed Transaction Processing in Oracle RAC

• Administering Services

• Global Services

• Automatic Workload Repository

• Measuring Performance by Service Using the Automatic Workload Repository

• Automatic Workload Repository Service Thresholds and Alerts