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DR Important Points
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1) Physical STANDBY dbs :
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1) Physical STANDBY db is synchronized with the PRIMARY db.
2) It applied REDO data.
3) Physical STANDBY db is a BLOCK-FOR-BLOCK identical copy of the PRIMARY db.
4) Its prefered choice for DISASTER RECOVERY.
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3) Logical STANDBY db :
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Benefits of Logical STANDBY dbs :
-- Even with all the new features that Oracle 11g adds for Physical STANDBY
dbs (e.g Real Time Apply),
a Logical STANDBY db still offers some interesting alternatives for :
-- a) OFFLOADING a REPORTING workload,
-- b) Protection against PHYSICAL BLOCK CORRUPTION,
-- c) PATCHING, and
-- d) DISASTER Recovery purposes.
--A) UNSUPPORTED OBJECTS : A Logical STANDBY dbs cannot accept updates for
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a) Any tables or sequences OWNED by SYS.
b) Any tables that use TABLE COMPRESSION.
c) Any tables that underle a MATERIALIZED VIEW.
d) Global Temporary Tables (GTTs).
--B) UNSUPPORTED DATA TYPES : Any Tables that are COMPRISED OF or whose
COLUMNS CONTAIN the UNSUPPORTED DATATYPES
cannot be updated in a Logical STANDBY
dbs :
a) Datatypes BFILE, ROWID and UROWID.
b) Any USER-DEFINED TYPEs.
c) MULTIMEDIA data types like Oracle Spatial, ORDDICOM, and
Oracle Text.
d) COLLECTIONS (e.g. nested tables, VARRAYs)
e) SecureFile LOBs
f) OBJECT RELATIONAL XMLTypes.
g) BINARY XML.