Re: Standby database & licensing

On Tue, 03 May 2005 07:49:53 -0700, stephen.howard interested us by writing:

> The way I read the "ten days per year" deal is, you could bring it up
> on average every 36 days to apply the archived redo logs (manually
> copied) to the dormant (not standby) database lying on the spare
> server, so you would never be more than 36 days behind...that is a lot
> of redo to apply (and store) in a real failure...

The original purpose of the 10 days was to provide sufficient time to test and evaluate the recovery mechanisms - so the organization is not learning under fire.

The rest of the time, it doesn't use any cpu CYCLES.

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Hans Forbrich                           
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