Oracle very kindly offered to run through a Proof of Concept installation of their GoldenGate replication product with us, and seeing as how we’re not prone to looking gift horses in their mouths, we’ve accepted!
Oracle GoldenGate Proof of Concept
Playing with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Quiet Friday’s are a nice treat but something too often squandered. This past Friday I found myself left to my own devices as the rest of the DBA team were working from another location. This left me free to get a few things about running our environment straight in my own mind with the most notable being was how to use CommVault for database backup and recovery beyond simply copying RMAN output to tape.
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// Data Guard // Database Incarnations // Standby Logs applying in Alert Log but not in V$ARCHIVED_LOG
Over the past week I’ve been getting a great introduction to the practical workings of Data Guard. In the past I’ve worked a lot with Disaster Recovery systems built using Oracle standard edition and therefore not licensed to use Data Guard and in those circumstances a poor man’s version of the system was put in place by using RSYNC to synchronise archive logs between a production database and a DR database. With the logs in place, a script run on a schedule would recover the data from the logs. It turns out that the concept of Data Guard is pretty similar in that it’s basically about getting archive logs to the right place and setting the destination database into a mode where it can read those logs and be ready for when disaster strikes.
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Martin Minnock 