Basic  Oracle question

What should be the best approach for updating a table remotely?
Say we have one database in JAPAN and one in US. we need to update one table column in JAPAN database from here.
What we have done: We have created a synonym of that table here (using database link)and updating throu that. But it is very slow ... when we process large amount data.
If there a better solution..... please share ... (replication????)

If you wanted to move the application to another server, you would generally need to move it to another database. Potentially, you could move some or all of your PL/SQL to an Oracle Forms application using the PL/SQL interpreter there. This would generally involve some degree of application rework, though.
What is the underlying reason for going to a separate server? If you have too much load for a single server to handle, perhaps you could cluster the database.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
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