The confangled gadget Jeremy Schneider is referring to is Oracle "Services". I read his paper today entitled, Unleashing Oracle Services: A Comprehensive Review of "Services" in Oracle Databases . On his site, Jeremy says, "This is an in-depth research paper summarizing several months of research about Oracle Services." Also, here is the abstract description: Performance management and high availability have become base requirements for today’s enterprise relational database management systems. In Oracle databases users create “services” to...
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