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Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide

By : John P Jeffries, John P Jeffries
Book Image

Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide

By: John P Jeffries, John P Jeffries

Overview of this book

Data replication is an important part of any database system that is growing due to today's demand for real-time reporting and regulatory requirements. GoldenGate has recently become Oracle's strategic real-time data replication solution. Until now, very little has been written about how to implement GoldenGate in a production enterprise environment where performance, scalability, and data integrity are paramount. Your days of dismay over the lack of documentation over Oracle GoldenGate are over. Welcome to Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide – a comprehensive practical book, which will deliver answers to your questions in a clear, concise style, allowing you to progress effectively in a timeline-driven environment. Based on the author's own experience, this long awaited GoldenGate administration book has all that is required to install, design, configure, and tune data replication solutions suited to every environment. Be the first to master GoldenGate's power and flexibility by reading this unique hands-on implementation companion. Systems need to send data from one system to another in a timely manner to satisfy the ever-increasing need for speed. Regardless of whether you are a novice or an expert – or someone in between – this book will guide you through all the steps necessary to build a high-performance GoldenGate solution on Oracle11gR1. Expert users can dive into key topic areas such as performance tuning or troubleshooting, while novice users can step through the early installation and configuration chapters, later progressing to the advanced chapters. This book is more than an implementation guide. It offers detailed real-life examples, encouraging additional thought and discussion by going beyond the manual. With Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer's guide in hand, you'll be designing, installing, and configuring high-performance solutions using GoldenGate in less time than you can say "replicate"
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle GoldenGate 11 Implementer's guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
GGSCI Commands
GoldenGate Installed Components
The Future of Oracle GoldenGate
Index

GoldenGate on RAC


A number of architectural options are available to Oracle RAC, particularly surrounding storage. Since Oracle 11g Release 2, these options have grown, making it possible to configure the whole RAC environment using Oracle software, whereas in earlier versions, third party clusterware and storage solutions had to be used. Let's start by looking at the importance of shared storage.

Shared storage

The secret to RAC is "share everything" and this also applies to GoldenGate. RAC relies on shared storage in order to support a single database having multiple instances, residing on individual nodes. Therefore, as a minimum the GoldenGate checkpoint and trail files must be on the shared storage so all Oracle instances can "see" them. Should a node fail, a surviving node can "take the reins" and continue the data replication without interruption.

Since Oracle 11g Release 2, in addition to ASM, the shared storage can be an ACFS or a DBFS.

Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System...