Re: High Availability Requirements/Concepts

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:03:39 +0200
Message-ID: <2ip1519outk4lrqkijroosfi72jfb7g9qs@4ax.com>

On 3 Apr 2005 23:25:34 -0700, "Gump" <phefford_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>I cannot have a constant test environment at the secondary site. I
>need to be able to utilise the standby database. Can I turn off the
>data guard functionality and bring up the standby database as a normal
>database?

sure, but you would need to rebuild the standby database from scratch every time you do this. What's the purpose of a standby database, when it is not available 7x24? Apart from that your activities are probably more expensive than extra hardware.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 02:03:39 CDT