A method and apparatus are provided for transferring a resource from the cache of one database server to the cache of another database server without first writing the resource to disk. When a database server (Requestor) desires to modify a resource, the Requestor asks for the current version of the...http://www.google.de/patents/US6609136?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6609136 - Recovering data from a failed cache using a surviving cache