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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 – working with skip rules on a logical standby database


We are now going to create some skip rules on the logical standby database in order to skip replication of DDL or DML operations on some tables. Then we'll see how to query the existing skip rules and finally the method for disabling the rules.

  1. We need to create skip rules for tables and schemas, but first we need to stop SQL Apply using the following query:

    SQL> ALTER DATABASE STOP LOGICAL STANDBY APPLY;
  2. Then, the following statement will create a skip rule to skip changes caused by DML statements on the EMP table of the SCOTT schema. Execute the following statement on the logical standby database:

    SQL> EXECUTE DBMS_LOGSTDBY.SKIP(STMT => 'DML', SCHEMA_NAME => 'SCOTT', OBJECT_NAME => 'EMP');
    
    PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
  3. If we also want skip DDL statements encountered for this table, the following statement will create another skip rule:

    SQL> EXECUTE DBMS_LOGSTDBY.SKIP(STMT => 'SCHEMA_DDL'...