Deploying Oracle active Data Guard 12c on Windows servers Part II (Administration)

6.Data Guard Administration  In the Part II We will perform the following tasks in this lab to manage and validate the data guard configuration (followed in order). if you wonder  how we got here check the Part I :  Implementation 1. Configure the Data Guard Broker   2. Change the redo transport mode (via Broker/ sqlplus) …

Deploying Oracle active Data Guard 12c on Windows servers part I

1. INTRODUCTION Data Guard started with a very simple database function designed to keep a synchronized database copy with a lot of manual work. It has now become a tool with automation, recovery and failover features. Oracle Data Guard remains the only solution available today with the best RPO and RTO benefits for businesses. This …

Deploying Oracle active Data Guard 12c on Windows servers Part III (FAST START FAILOVER)

7. FAST START FAILOVER 7.1 CONFIGURATION FAST START FAILOVER Fast start failover allows Data Guard to automatically failover to a previously selected standby database without human intervention. Data Guard monitors the status of the configuration continuously and triggers a failover if necessary.This architecture makes the fast-start failover ideal for high availability and disaster recovery. ยป …

12c Data Guard : Resolve Log gap Error: ORA-16724: “cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases”

This error happened while my Lab standby server was unreachable for few days. Although my setup was built on top of a Windows environment, the resolution process stays the same here for fixing this error (using an RMAN incremental backup) . For more details about the Data Guard setup used in this example please refer …