Re: Can RedHat ASE 2.1 primary Oracle DB have SUSE physical standby?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:44:23 +0200
Message-ID: <35c591hojosl9vcvktltgkckkhh9lb7lml_at_4ax.com>
On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:09:00 -0700, John Bailo <jabailo_at_texeme.com> wrote:
>The OS will have nothing to do with it. You could do this between
>Solaris and SCO Unix if you wanted to.
>
>The database server will have everything to do with it. If you're using
>a replication program that's part of the DBMS ( I guess Oracle in this
>situation ) it should work by connecting the databases using IP
>address...the two database servers will "talk" to each other using
>whatever protocol your DMBS vendor uses for replication.
>
>Capisce?
Regrettably, this is fully incorrect.
Standby <> Replication, so OS *does* matter, at least until 9i.
Standby means : the primary database ships online redo logs file to
the standby server. No individual transactions are being shipped.
This means both O/Ses have to be identical.
-- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBAReceived on Tue May 24 2005 - 06:44:23 CEST