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Re: Manual update / replication on a live database?

From: sybrandb <sybrandb_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2 Jan 2007 22:06:39 -0800
Message-ID: <1167804399.044874.235010@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>

tcp100 wrote:
> Oh.. And for details, I think this will work.. We're dealing only with
> about half a million rows - the database size is about 700mb. Not too
> crazy at all.
>
> Most of these are inserts, I will wager that there are no deletes save
> for the occasional development / administrative one, and few updates.
>
> I think this process will work - of course incremental would be better,
> but from what I'm hearing, copying a redo log over and restoring it
> won't meet my zero downtime requirement -- but it could meet a "low"
> downtime requirement if reasonable.. (Unfortunately that's not where I
> stand.)
>
> Thanks again for the advice...
>
> -Chris
>
>
>

Nonsense.
The 'solution' of Mr. Hinsdale is *extreemly* complicated, and you won't have ANY downtime using a standby database. The only thing that can go wrong is unreadable archives (as a result of the copy procedure) and/or not all archives being applied.

-- 
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Wed Jan 03 2007 - 00:06:39 CST

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