Re: Standby Database - convert working standby to primary

On 2006-05-17, Jerome Vitalis <vitalismanREMOVETHAT_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:45:30 -0700, Steve Howard wrote:
>
>> <<You sure about that? I had thought that activating the standby
>> rendered
>> the primary unuseable. >>
>>
>> Yes, I am positive.
>
> I agree. It does not render the primary unuseable, it merely removes the
> primary from the Dataguard environment.
>
> You will be doing some sort of failover by "pretending" that the primary

        Also keep in mind that you can do a "switchover" instead. The primary can become the standby and this operation can later be reversed.

> is down. For maintenance sake (RMAN et al) you might want to change the
> DBID of one of the databases.
>
> Jerome

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