Re: Standby database question

Anton Buijs <aammbuijs_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Datafile names do NOT need to be the same on the standby database.
> With nit.ora parameter DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT (V8.1.7) you can specify pares
> of strings to convert a name from primary to standby database.

Right, I forgot about that mangling. I didn't use it since I prefer using symlinks to fake up the paths.

> The OS and the version and the Oracle software version need to be the same
> on the standby db.

The OS can be different; HPUX10.10 and HPUX10.20, for example. What's primarily the issue is the architecture.

> So you can't have a standby db on Sun Solaris and the primary db on HP Unix.

Right.

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