CHAPTER 12Oracle Data Guard Broker

Think back to what you learned in Chapter 9: You learned how to create both a physical and logical standby, how to configure log transport services, how to create standby redo logs, how to manage both a physical and logical standby, and how to perform role transitions. When we created a physical or logical standby, we had to configure numerous parameters and various attributes. Switchover to a physical standby requires about nine steps. What if a switchover or failover could be reduced to a single command? How about completely automated failovers? You can have it all by using the Oracle Data Guard Broker.

Oracle Data Guard Broker is a centralized framework that automates the configuration, management, and ...

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