Definition of irrigation. 1  1 : the therapeutic flushing of a body part with a stream of liquid. 2  2 : the watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth.
Answer: To start with, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) are a database system involving a configuration of multiple hosts or servers joined together with clustering software and accessing the shared disk storage structures.
In addition to the SID or ServiceName for each Oracle instance in the Oracle RAC system, a ServiceName exists for the entire Oracle RAC system. When an application uses the Oracle RAC system's ServiceName, the Oracle RAC system appears to be a single Oracle instance to the application.