Re: Manual Standby as alternative to dataguard

From: sanjeev m <sanjeevorcle_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:11:29 -0700
Message-ID: <bbe2da7e0906161411h76e3a23aqbe318705a38604d3_at_mail.gmail.com>



Thanks to all for the clarifications.

There were only small fraction of tables that do no have forcelogging enabled.

Regards.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke_at_hotsos.com>wrote:

> The apply process will apply what ever it gets from the primary. If there
> are data integrity issues, then you will have to sort that out when you try
> to active the standby.
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> So the answers to your direct questions are NO and NO.
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> Like Jared said, this is not a technical issue. Dataguard will run just
> happy as a pig in slop no matter what the setting of FORCE LOGGING on the
> primary. You just might not be able to use the database when you try to
> active it if it’s not turned on. If they want to run with out turning on
> FORCED LOGGING then they are kidding them selves about having a DG site.
> And you and your IT staff better have that in writing so they don’t think
> they do have a DG site when they really don’t.
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> How much stuff is running with NOLOGGING anyway? And does everyone really
> know what NOLOGGING does? It may not be doing what they think it is doing
> anyway.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *sanjeev m
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:45 PM
> *To:* Mathias Magnusson
> *Cc:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: Manual Standby as alternative to dataguard
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> They are expecting performance issues. I agree this has to be tested with
> them after enabling it in non-production evironment and if there are still
> performance issues really then move off those segments to a different
> tablespace,Enable force logging for the rest of the tablespaces atleast.We
> will set the expectation with business that those objects with nologging
> cant be recovered on activation of standby
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> My question is
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> (*) will the Dataguard managed recovery itself have any issues if there is
> noforce logging on primary?
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> (*) In other words is there any difference in implementing using manual
> method versus Dataguard (MRP) with nologging as long as there is no impact
> to log apply(recovery) on standby.
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> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Mathias Magnusson <
> mathias.magnusson_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> What kind of problem does the business see with force logging? What
> transactions do you have that they require nologging on that is critical to
> the business?
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> That is, are you fighting a theoretical or real problem? Force logging is
> that because it is needed. You cannot invent data that is now written to the
> log files. Manual or not, you'll have the same need to have logging occur.
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> I think you are better off dealing with the actual issue, rather than
> something that seems to an opinion not based on hard data.
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> Mathias
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> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM, sanjeev m <sanjeevorcle_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> At our site we are having difficulty getting approval from business to
> enable force logging on database objects.
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> We plan to implement DR using manual method ie (shipping archive logs to DR
> site through cronjob, performing manual recovery on mounted standby
> controlfile)
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> I understand without forcelogging all nologging transactions wont be
> recoverable. Is this true during recovery or after activating the standby?
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> Is forcelogging a mandatory pre-requisite for implementing Dataguard? Has
> any of you have experience implementing Dataguard without force logging
> enabled.
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> Will there be any issues during managed recovery if it encounters a
> nologging change? Wont we be hitting same issue if we are doing the recovery
> manually as opposed to MRP process?
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> Regards,
>
> Sanjeev.
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