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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 logical standby using broker


Perform the following steps to change the roles of the primary and logical standby databases:

  1. Check the configuration of Data Guard. In the broker's configuration, we have one primary database and one logical standby database already configured. Ensure that the status is SUCCESS before performing a switchover as shown in the following code:

    DGMGRL> show configuration;
    Configuration - PACKT
      Protection Mode: MaxPerformance
      Databases:
        INDIA_UN     - Primary database
        turkey_un    - Logical standby database
    Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED
    Configuration Status:
    SUCCESS
  2. Perform a switchover using the DGMGRL command. Before performing switchover, connect to the DGMGRL utility using the complete username and password of the SYS user instead of connecting with / as shown in the following code:

    DGMGRL>  connect sys/*******
    Connected.

    Once authenticated, initiate the switchover with the following command as shown in the screenshot...