Category: OCM 12c Preparation

This topic is similar to the one related to the Observer in 11g OCM Exam. The Fast-Start Failover Observer is an Oracle Data Guard Broker component that allows the DBA automate failover tasks. Having it set up is a requirement to have more peaceful nights of sleep as well as a good OCM exam score. For this …

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This topic is just telling you exactly to UNDO what you did in the previous topic: convert now from snapshot standby back to a physical standby. Just do the opposite way. However, as the topic title is not entirely clear, this could also means to restore the standby database to its normal function after a …

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Make the standby database available for testing = Convert your Physical Standbys into Snapshot Standbys Standby databases can become snapshot standbys with a single command line over DG Broker or SQLPlus. What I recommend in this chapter is: Convert a physical standby to snapshot standby using Broker. (preferable) The same above using SQLPlus. That’s it! …

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Creating an physical standby database is not an easy task. It involves a lot of steps, as duplicating the primary database, changing some parameters and database configuration. Than you need to create the standby database and finally synchronize and enable it with real-time apply. For this topic, I recommend exercising the following points: Duplicate from …

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ACFS is now renamed to Oracle CloudFS. Oracle ACFS files systems are typically configured for clusterwide access. File systems, files, and directories are visible and accessible from all cluster members and can be referenced by users and applications using the same path names from any cluster member. This is a good way to also implement …

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