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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 – checking the SQL Apply service status


The following steps can be performed to check the SQL Apply service status:

  1. Use the following query on the logical standby database, to check the general SQL Apply status:

    SQL> SELECT * FROM V$LOGSTDBY_STATE;
    
       PRIMARY_DBID SESSION_ID REALTIME_APPLY  STATE
    --------------- ---------- --------------- ---------------
         1319333016          1 Y               APPLYING

    At the STATE column, we can see INITIALIZING, WAITING FOR DICTIONARY LOGS, LOADING DICTIONARY, WAITING ON GAP, APPLYING, and IDLE values, which describe the status of the SQL Apply clearly with their names.

  2. The DBA_LOGSTDBY_LOG view, that we have queried in the Checking the Redo Transport Service Status action, will be very helpful to find the last applied archived log sequence and to check if there are archived log sequences that were received but not applied. Another view V$LOGSTDBY_PROCESS is helpful to control the status of the processes responsible for SQL Apply.

    SQL...