Re: Standby on Same box

2009/2/3 D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge_at_uptime.be>:
> Yes, but if you are on 10g you could use flashback database to recover from a failover without having to rebuild your primary.
> At least, if your db files are still intact.
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> Freek D'Hooge
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> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield
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> Subject: Re: Standby on Same box
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> well for protection against loss of the original box, it's obviously not a great plan! It might provide some protection against logical corruption (the mythical 'junior dba' for example) if configured with a delay.
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> As far as switchover/switchback goes - that operation doesn't involve a rebuild - though failover does.
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> Niall Litchfield
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