Re: Database replication / sync

"M. van Someren" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Although I'm not a db expert I am involved in some conceptional work and dbs
> are part of it.
>
> I am looking for an elegant way to synchronize two Oracle8 databases. Two
> concepts I am looking at:
>
> - master db only sends updates to a slave db (master has read write access,
> slave only read)
> - master db and slave db sync (both have read write accesss)
>
> first of all, I have been informed that Oracle-replication is possible by
> means of Net8 but no routers are allowed in between so a dedicated dial-in
> would only be possible. can anyone inform me more on this topic.

Net8 can work with tcp/ip... and *that* can be routed.

>
>
> secondly, is there an easy way to somehow extract all db updates in a
> compact way so one could send (mail, ftp or whatever) the updates to the
> slave db where it somehow can be imported.
>
> thanks!
>
> rgds, Marcel
Received on Mon Oct 16 2000 - 20:05:19 CEST