It has long been an ambition of mine to have my very own RAC cluster database.

My former TUSC colleague and good friend John Smiley over at Amazon.com created a white paper some years back where he showed how to create a two node RAC cluster out of a couple of spare x86 Linux boxes and as I recall, some scotch tape, glue and pixie dust. It really was very cool and definitely worth a Blue Peter badge.

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