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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration : Beginner's Guide

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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration : Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Data Guard is the high availability, disaster recovery and data replication solution for Oracle Databases. With the huge growth of Data Guard it's getting harder to encounter an Oracle DBA not dealing with Data Guard. Since it's a common DBA task to provide high availability of databases, Data Guard is a must-know topic for every Oracle Database Administrator."Oracle Data Guard 11g R2 Beginner's Administration Guide" is a practical guide that provides all the information you will need to configure and maintain Data Guard. This book will show you what Data Guard can really do.By following the practical examples in this book, you'll learn to set up your Data Guard Broker, the management framework for Data Guard configurations. Learn and implement different data protection modes, perform role transitions between databases (switchover and failover) and configure Active Data Guard. Next, we will dive into the features of Snapshot Standby. The book progresses into looking at Data Guard configuration with other Oracle products (such as EM, RAC, and RMAN) and patch databases in Data Guard. The final chapters will cover commonly encountered Data Guard issues and Data Guard best practices, which are very important to make a Data Guard configuration perfect and take maximum advantage of Data Guard properties.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – switchover with a physical standby using SQL*Plus


Perform the following steps using the SQL*Plus connection for both the databases:

  1. We have to check whether the primary database is ready for switchover to standby or not. Check the switchover status from the primary database by issuing the following command and verify that the status is either TO STANDBY or SESSIONS ACTIVE:

    SQL> select switchover_status from v$database;
    SWITCHOVER_STATUS
    --------------------
    TO STANDBY

    The previous output shows that the primary database is ready to switch to the standby database role. The SESSIONS ACTIVE status indicates that some user sessions are still connected to the database. Such a case does not pose an obstacle for switchover. When output is SESSIONS ACTIVE, you have to perform switchover using the keyword WITH SESSION SHUTDOWN. This is so that those sessions will be terminated during the switchover.

  2. Perform the switchover command from the primary database.

    SQL> alter database commit...