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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

Data Guard broker features and benefits


The Data Guard broker can be configured on existing or new Data Guard configurations either with physical or with logical standby databases with a global configuration.

Centralized and simple management

The Data Guard broker provides a graphical user interface and command-line interface for the simple management and automation of management and operational tasks across multiple databases in a Data Guard configuration. The broker monitors all of the systems within a single Data Guard configuration. You can perform all management operations locally or remotely through the broker's easy-to-use interfaces, such as the Data Guard management pages in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, that is, the broker's graphical user interface and the Data Guard command-line interface called DGMGRL.

Cloud Control integration

Integration with Enterprise Manager Cloud Control simplifies the management of standby databases by using graphical consoles. All operations are...