Re: Oracle High Availability Question(s)

Hi

Just some warning with GoldenGate.

Recently we had a big issue with GoldenGate in the most critical database in one of or customers. GoldenGate ignored all updates in target because the target and source had different PK (target had same table structure as source but partitioned so PK had an additional column, the partitioning key), just because of different PK even we knew that and specified KEYCOLS in the target the updates was ignored until 1 month later a data analyst noticed some data divergence and adviced our support team. We had to restore 4 backups (each 4TB) to recover the data. It turns out bug 26553124 and there werent even a Alert in MOS explaining such behaviour.

Lesson learnt. GoldenGate is unpredictable, this is the second time in 2 years I see such data divergence due to GoldenGate bug and the impact is huge, huge and huge because data divergence is soooo difficult to detect.

So for DR stick with Data Guard (Physical Standby). I consider RAC as HA because you have several nodes available for a single copy of data (I consider DR more than one copy of data) and the death of one node still makes the application available, only 100%/number of nodes is impacted and the recovery is fast.

Thanks

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> What about GoldenGate Tim??
>
> (Since I find myself trying to support this with no training/prior
> experience and learning in the deep end of the pool.... :)
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Going into Data Guard without training is uncomfortable, but going into
>> RAC without training is untenable. You can try it, but it is going to hurt
>> a lot, and you'll end up with something you'll regret.
>>
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>>

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