The Maximum Performance mode

This is the mode in which the primary database's availability is completely independent of the redo transport service. In other words, a primary database never waits for any acknowledgment from standby destinations to complete a transaction. Thus, we don't suffer from standby network-connection problems or standby availability-related performance problems and availability problems in the primary database.

This mode is the default protection mode and the log transport service must use the ASYNC mode with the LGWR or ARCH attribute. However, with 11g, ARCH transport is not recommended because it doesn't offer any advantage in terms of performance, and offers less data protection.

In the normal operation of the Maximum ...

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