Re: REplication vs. Standby database

They are not the same. Stand by uses a whole different methodology than replication. Replication can be partial. It can be snapshot or multimaster. You can hot backup a replicated database . The standby on the other end deals with totally different parameters.

                                Tapan H Trivedi

dkight wrote:
>
> We had a situation recently where our entire raid device suffered a hardware
> failure. I am looking at updating our disaster recovery scheme by using
> either a standby database or Replication. I understand that both apply
> archive redo logs to a secondary database.
>
> Why does Oracle have a standby database product is replication is
> essentially provides the same functionality and the replicated is available
> for user access?
Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 11:35:02 CDT