Physical Standby Database and v$Recover_file Query

From: Johne_uk <edgarj_at_tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:11:24 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <f8397e2c-7b70-4a03-9b38-b245bdb71833_at_n7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>



Hi

I have created a traditional physical standby instance from a hot backup using a standby controlfile etc. from the primary db (10.2.0.4). Not using dataguard but there were no issues during creation.

In standby mode if I querry v$recover file I receive the following.

FILE#	ONLINE	ONLINE_STATUS	ERROR	CHANGE#	TIME
1	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
2	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
3	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
4	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
5	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
6	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
7	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
8	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55
9	ONLINE	ONLINE		8185278196312	05/02/2010 14:11:55

If I bring up the instance in read-only mode executing the same query returns nothing and there are no datafiles etc offline.

Is it normal to receive this output from v$recover_file when an instance is running in standby mode. I need to have confidence that it can be activated in the event of a primary instance failure.

I'm wondering if its because I used a standby controlfile and applied about 40-50 archive logs that were generated after it was created from primary.

There is no archive gap either.

Thanks in advance

John Received on Fri Feb 05 2010 - 11:11:24 CST

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