Preparation is the key to just about any task. Get the preparation right and you will be rewarded with best results. This is also true for GoldenGate, where a number of fundamental areas need to be prepared before the installation can take place.
The primary installation procedure specified in this chapter represents a source and target Oracle 12c container database with one or more pluggable databases configured. This is a standalone environment built on a virtual machine for demonstration purposes. We will discuss how to configure GoldenGate 12c on a clustered environment in Chapter 6, Configuring GoldenGate for HA.
To successfully create, configure, and start our Extract, data pump, and Replicat processes, it's important to configure the source database. As described in Chapter 1, Getting Started, GoldenGate relies on the database's changed data, written to its transaction logs to achieve data replication...