Re: backup options

Michael McClure gave a worthwhile overview of standby databases at December's OpenWorld (paper #104). It's not too late to download it.

http://www.oracle.com/openworld/us/conference/index.html?agenda.html

Good luck!

• Catherine Devlin

P.S. I nominate Howard for some sort of literature prize for the following paragraph...

>Which is certainly possible (I've done it, once). But there's a hell of a
>kerfuffle getting the old primary to now be the standby and direct all the
>redo from the new primary back to it. Not exactly flip-flop if I remember...
>more like a "kerflunk, damn, blast, kerfloffle, plonk, ah! damn, bummer,
>"get me a beer", bink!, ping!, sodit".

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