Re: Standby Server requirements in 10G

On 13 Dec 2005 10:48:02 -0800, "BGT" <bgt0990_at_optonline.net> wrote:

>Have they made Data Guard (and hence Enterprise edition) a requirement
>for 10G?

No

 Or can I set it up the same way I have done for 8i and 9i,
>which is to manually move and apply the logfiles via scripts.
Which is obviously a method that is much more lousy, prone to error and less robust than Oracle's standby mechanism

I hate
>to think I have to saddle a customer with the huge cost increase just
>to do Data Guard. It looks like the necessary SQL commands are there
>to do the job the same as before but there are some new commands that I
>haven't researched yet .
>
>Bottom line is this is an important customer and I want to give them
>the best service possible

So that's why you provided him with those scripts 'best service' is for you equivalent to 'cheap'

 but I don't want to charge them extra for
>functionality they are already getting today.
>
>Anyone know for sure?
>
>Thanks
>Barry

If I were that customer, I was going to look for another vendor.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA