On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Leon Botes wrote:
Well the services on the real servers that need to connect to the database
are themselves balanced. The situation where maybe the database on the real
server dies but the application continues to run would create a scenario
where the application would not be able to write to the database yet the
application would still respond to client requests.
yes you have to handle failover but don't confuse
loadbalancing with failover
Joe
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