3.14 Managing distributed databases
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- Overview. Dynamic data replication.

- Remoute queries. Database links.

- Remote Data Manipulation: two-phase commit

- Managing distributed data.
  Enforcing location transparency. DB links versus  Oracle*Names.
  Managing database triggers. Managing snapshots.
  Remote procedure calls: synchronous and asynchronous.

- Replication facilities.

- Managing distributed transactions.

- Database domains and communities

- Monitoring and tuning distributed databases