Re: Standby on Same box

From: Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:00:18 +0000
Message-ID: <713d96d10902031100j6adc405cvb0145024e374d2ee_at_mail.gmail.com>

At a certain Bank someone unknown deleted a database file. In that situation the
Standby on the same box would be ideal. Financial trading needs rapid failover. The same thing happened the next day ! (Double ouch) I think there was a string of redundancies at the time.

On 03/02/2009, Maureen English <sxmte_at_email.alaska.edu> wrote:
> I agree with the other comments regarding having a standby that is
> planned for use as a failover on a different box. However, we've
> been considering having a logical standby on the same box, where its
> purpose would be simply a reporting database.
>
> - Maureen
>
>
> Howard Latham wrote:
>> Oracle 10g and 11g.
>>
>> REDHAT LInux
>>
>> I have just been told by a consultant that a standby on the same box
>> as a primary is not recommended.(We also have a standby on another
>> box) My feeling is that will speedup a rebuild should we ever have to
>> switch over and switch back.Any views?
>>
>>
>>
>
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