Data Guard

Creating&Refreshing a refreshable PDB (from a Standby Database)

I’m used to work with refreshable clones in several Oracle multitenant environments. However, due to the amount of Archived Redo Log generated we never really tried to offload the the “refresh” process on the Active Data Guard Standby database.

What will happen to your spare clones during a switchover on ExaCC?

As you might know, on ExaCC, it is possible to create spare clones. This is based on snapshot technology. There is no physical copy and the modified blocks will be written to the sparse clone, and in our case these(…)

Create new PDB in a Data Guard environment on ExaCC

In this blog, I would like to share how to create a new PDB in one CDB in a Data Guard environment on the ExaCC. Naming Convention Following is the naming convention: CDB Name is MYCDB ExaCC Primary(…)

Considerations when backing up from the Oracle Standby Database (Data Guard) with rman to shared storage (NFS)

To reduce load on the Primary DB in a Data Guard configuration you may decide to do your rman backups from the Standby site. A very common approach today is to use NFS as the backup location, especially when(…)