Patent ID: 11907251
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 47:
48. The computer system of claim 37, wherein the at least the first portion of the distributed database comprises an instance of the distributed database in its entirety and serves as a primary database, the at least the second portion of the distributed database comprises an identical instance of the distributed database in its entirety and serves as a standby database for the primary database, and wherein the set of acts for performing the operation on the LOB stored in the distributed database at the remote database server comprise:
initiating a request to perform a READ operation on the LOB and each of one or more additional LOBs, the request initiated at a last common remote database server on a path from the client to the LOB and the one or more additional LOBs, wherein the one or more database servers comprise at least the last common remote database server and one or more remote database servers;
forwarding the READ operation from the last common remote database server to one or more remote database servers at which the LOB and the one or more additional LOBs are located;
processing the request to perform the READ operation on the LOB and each of the one or more additional LOBs at the one or more remote database servers;
receiving, at the last common remote database server, a result of the request to perform the READ operation on the LOB and each of the one or more additional LOBs;
performing a comparison of the result of the request to perform the READ operation on the LOB and each of the one or more additional LOBs; and
returning an additional result of the comparison to the client.