Standby... even if I have to be paged in the middle of the night to bring it
up and live.
replication is a nightmare to implement unless you plan for it. Standby is a
breeze to implement and maintain.
>From: Andrey Bronfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: A high-availability question (standby , replication or ....)
>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:11:09 -0800
>
>Dear gurus !
>
>A customer wants to have a backup database on a remote "in case of
>disaster"
>site.
>That database needs to be as much in sync with the primary DB as possible,
>and a sort of failover must be implemented ,
>i.e. if the primary site fails , the users will be AUTOMATICALLY routed to
>the secondary one .
>
>I thought of 2 possible approaches :
>multimaster asynchronous replication and a standby database.
>The problem is that AFAIK , there is no automatic failover in case of
>standby DB , i.e.. U need to issue "ALTER DATABASE ACTIVATE STANDBY
>DATABASE; " or something like that on a backup site.
>From the other hand multimaster replication sounds like a big headache .
>
>So , gurus , what would U suggest ?
>How do U implement HA on your sites ?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance for your time.
>
>Andrey.
>
>
>
>
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