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Re: Standby Feature

From: Rich Woods <rawoods_at_concentric.net>
Date: 1997/02/18
Message-ID: <330A73C5.6BFA@concentric.net>#1/1

Michael Dimitriadis wrote:
>
> I would like to create a standby database with the alter database commands
> using the mechanism of piping archived redolog-files to the other machine.
> But what makes me scaring is the information in the online redolog-files.
> Is it true that i would lose all commited transactions whose changes were
> written to the active redologfile when switching to the standby database
> because of a breakdown of the original server?
Only if you lost both the newly archived redolog AND your online database too. This is also a very good reason to use multiple redo log groups with multiple redo log members per group, on different drives, of course.

-- 
Rich Woods
Technical Field Support Specialist, Oracle Corporation, USA
The above statements and opinions are my own and do not
necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation.
Received on Tue Feb 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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