"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<3f835e83$0$15970$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Joel Garry wrote:
>
> > Lucyna Witkowska <ypwitkow_at_nospamcyf-kr.edu.pl> wrote in message
> > news:<bljggk$k9s$1_at_srv.cyf-kr.edu.pl>...
> >> Hi Howard,
> >>
> >> Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> > There is no functional reason why (in 9i) you need to run with a
> >> > catalog.
> >>
> >> As this is my problem too. Could you say that for 8.1.7 RMAN also?
> >>
> >
> > I seem to have run into a similar issue to this in 8i:
> >
> http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=235973.1
> >
> > which seems to make some difficulties automating the creation of a
> > standby db. There are many differences between 9 and 8, I expect most
> > issues are workaroundable, but a lot of little things add up...
> >
> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/business/news_1b7sun.html
>
>
> We've had this discussion before, Joel. That's a bug as plain as plain can
> be, and these things certainly happen, and certainly add up. And you live
> in the real world and have to deal with these bugs, and I don't. So my
> advice is theoretical and general (so maybe I should have said 'there is no
> *theoretical* reason why you need to run with a catalog'). And you're
> experiencing the limitations of theory and generalisations.
>
> Which is a valuable reality check for the rest of us, but doesn't change my
> fundamental advice. "If your backup needs are not complex...": encountering
> such a bug would make your backup needs ipso facto complex.
>
> HJR
Well, since I'm doing the most basic standby db creation, complex is
very simple. doubleplusnottoogood.
jg
--
@home.com is bogus. If you would have said a year ago that some
Lebanese guy would convince the people of one of the five largest
economies in the world to remove their leader and replace him with a
charismatic Austrian, it would be considered bad fiction. Now it's
history.
Received on Wed Oct 08 2003 - 18:41:27 CDT
