Re: Oracle 8i Standby Complete Recovery

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:49:54 +0200, Chris Forbis wrote (in message <f2dc430d.0210141349.6b4b299f_at_posting.google.com>):

> I am looking into ways of recovering in the case of a major failer on
> a primary server. I have the idea to create a standby server, and
> this seems to take care of much of the work. The problem I see is
> when the primary system fails, and a log switch has not happened in
> the last 4 minutes, It seems I loss that 4 minutes of data because the
> log has not been archived and moved.
>
> Ideas of how to get 100% no data loss?

Switch to 9i. It allows you to configure dataguard with no data loss (at the cost of a performance penalty).

Ronald