SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Administrators Handbook

Up to this point, you have learned about the many new features with Oracle Database 10g. Although many of these major changes provide you with a new way of managing your data, the new features of Oracle 10g Data Guard will change the way you protect your data from events ranging from unplanned outages to major catastrophes.

Overall, the latest improvements to 10g Data Guard can be broken down into three separate categories:

  • General improvements

  • Logical standby improvements

  • Data Guard Broker improvements

Post 9/11

The events of September 11, 2001, have proved to the world that major catastrophes can happen at any time without warning. Database administrators tasked with architecting a disaster-recovery plan will need to understand how to reconstitute their production application at a remote site. Any event that will render your system useless should be included in your disaster-recovery plan.

This chapter dissects the latest features within each of these categories.

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