Goldengate Interview Questions

1. What type of topologies does Goldengate replication support?

It supports the following topologies.

o Unidirectional
o Bidirectional
o Peer-to-peer
o Broadcast
o consolidation
o Cascasding

2. What are the main components of the Goldengate replication?

The replication consists of the Manager, extract, pump and the replicat processes.

3. What type of Replication does Goldengate support?

Goldengate supports BOTH DML and DDL Replication.

4. What kind of supplemental logging is a per-requisite?

o Database supplemental
o Object level logging

5. How do you look at the data which has been extracted?

The logdump utility is used to open the trail files and look at the RBA and the actual data
being moved.

6. What are common possible reasons that the Extract process will slow down?

Some of the possible reasons are:

o Long running batch transactions in the database
o Insufficient memory set for long running transactions can caus writing of uncommitted
transaction to a temporary area.

7. What are common possible reasons that the Replicat process will slow down?

Some of the possible reasons are below.

o If using DBFS, writing & reading of trail files may be slow if SGA parameters are not
tuned.
o For slow Replicat’s, latency may be due to missing indexes on target.
o Replicat having to process Update, delete of rows in very large tables.

8. What type of encryption is supported in Goldengate?

Oracle Goldengate provides 3 types of encryption.

o Data encryption using Blow fish.

o Password encryption using encyryption key.
o Network encryption.

9. Where can filtering of data for a column take place?

The filtering of the columns of a table can be done at the Extract, Pump or the Replicat
level.

10. What does the passthru mode used for?

In pass-through mode, the Extract process does not look up table definitions, either from
the database or from a data definitions file. This increases the throughput of the data
pump, as looks up object definitions is bypassed.

11. What are the steps required to add a new table to an existing replication setup?

The steps to be executed would be the following:

o Include the new table to the Extract & pump process.

o Obtain starting database SCN and Copy the source table data to the target database
o Start Replicat on target at the source SCN database point.
12. What are the area’s to monitor in Goldengate Replication?

The lag and checkpoint latency for the Extract, pump and Replicat are normally
monitored.

13. What is GoldenGate and how to setup GoldenGate?

14. What are processes/components in GoldenGate?

Manager, Extract, Replicat, Data Pump

15. What is Data Pump process in GoldenGate?

16. What is the command line utility in GoldenGate (or) what is ggsci?

17. What is the default port for GoldenGate Manager process?

7809

18. What are important files GoldenGate?

GLOBALS, ggserr.log, dirprm, etc ...

19. What is checkpoint table?

20. How can you see GoldenGate errors?

ggsci> VIEW GGSEVT
ggserr.log file