Foreword
I’ve often said that there is one thing a DBA is not allowed to get wrong, and that is recovery. To be more general, it is the DBA’s job to ensure that data that cannot ever be lost is never lost. If you cannot provide for continuous, no data loss access to all of your corporate data, you have not done the primary job a DBA should do. Providing a solid disaster recovery contingency is part of the job of the DBA, and Oracle Data Guard is the way to provide for it.
Oracle provides many features and functions to facilitate data backup, recovery, and availability. However, there are so many features that at times the implementation and configuration can be daunting. You’ll have questions such as “What is the ‘best way’ to provide continuous ...
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