Re: (9i) Logical standby database

"Daniel" <wiechczd_at_poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message news:aek8r1$dbg$1_at_news.tpi.pl...
> Hi,
> 9i introduce new possibilities in ensuring of database availability
> - logical standby database, where the updates are made using SQL
statements
> regenerated from logged changes to the primary database
>
> Question is - is it posible to implement a environoment (2 separate sites)
> where the logical standby database resides on different OS (f.ex. Windows
> 2000) platform than the production database (primary)
> - UNIX.
>
> Please help, it's very important..
> Thanks in Advance
> Daniel
>
>

That is already possible in Oracle 8i with the standby database feature. Obviously you will need the Enterprise Edition. By this I mean that homegrown scripts, pumping over the redologs, are not going to work. The key to this all is net8.

Hth

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Sybrand Bakker
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