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Before you want implement Standby Database, ask yourself, ”Is the standby database the right choice?“
The main disadvantages are:
1. Lack of scalability
2. Cost
3. UNRECOVERABLE or NOLOGGING operations are not propagated
4. Data loss due to loss of online redo logs, if geo-mirroring is not leveraged
So standby database is not a panacea for all outages, usually it’s just one critical part of a full recovery plan, Although the standby database can be leveraged as a failover solution, OPS and hardware failover solutions are more appropriate. In many cases I had been through, OPS and Oracle Standby Database together provide a greater recovery plan. Also I know 90%+ of OPS not properly be implemented, as a DBA you should go pickup the skill and take this responsibility, your boss may not tell the different between ‘standby database’ and OPS, that why you are the DBA!
After next 5 years many company’s database size will be beyond 50TB in US, and your company database also will get here eventually, do you still think use signal machine to run this kind of database? Yes, you can tune 7, 8, 8i., 9i databases today, if 10i (under developing right now!) pushed out it will auto diagnostic and tune the system problems. Think about this how much the knowledge you know today will still work after 5 years. |
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