Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook

Overview

Master Oracle Data Guard 11g

Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices for configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You will get full details on implementing deployment architectures to address requirements that extend beyond disaster recovery. This invaluable resource also includes a complete set of monitoring scripts available for download.

• Develop a disaster recovery plan for your Oracle database to meet your organization's requirements
• Configure and deploy Oracle Data Guard for your environment
• Tune and troubleshoot your physical and logical standby databases
• Implement the Oracle Data Guard Broker management framework
• Integrate with Oracle Grid Control
• Monitor your Oracle Data Guard environment
• Enable read-only services and disaster recovery with Oracle Active Data Guard
• Configure seamless database and application failover
• Minimize planned downtime using Oracle Data Guard switchover
• Handle backup and recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager

Table of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Data Guard Architecture
Chapter 2. Implementing Oracle Data Guard
Chapter 3. Redo Processing
Chapter 4. Logical Standby
Chapter 5. Implementing Oracle Data Guard Broker
Chapter 6. Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Integration
Chapter 7. Monitoring Data Guard Implementation
Chapter 8. Switchover and Failover
Chapter 9. Active Data Guard
Chapter 10. Automating Site and Client Failover
Chapter 11. Minimizing Planned Downtime Using Data Guard Switchover
Chapter 12. Backup and Recovery Considerations
Chapter 13. Troubleshooting Data Guard
Chapter 14. Deployment Architectures
Appendix A: Data Guard vs. Array-based Remote Mirroring Solutions
Index

Biographical note

Larry Carpenter is a distinguished product manager at Oracle USA and is a member of the Maximum Availability Architecture Product Management team in Server Technologies. Joseph Meeks is a director of product management with Oracle's Database High Availability Group in Server Technologies. Charles Kim, Oracle Certified DBA and OTN ACE, is the practice director at Database Technology Solutions. Bill Burke is a consulting technical director, system performance, and architecture with Oracle USA. Sonya Carothers is a senior Oracle database administrator at Fidelity National Information Services. Joydip Kundu is the director of development for Data Guard Logical Standby and LogMiner at Oracle. Michael Smith is principle member of technical staff in Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture team in Server Technologies. Nitin Vengurlekar is the coauthor of Oracle Automatic Storage Management.