FreeLists / oracle-l / RE: logical standby using different os

["Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial)" <MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx>]

Never mind, found the answer.   Yes, OS must be the same version (but not 
necessarily the same release or patchset)

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial)  
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:24 PM
> To:   'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:      logical standby using different os
> 
> The basic questions is:  Does a dataguard logical standby have to be on the 
> same OS as the primary?
> 
> Off hand I was thinking, yes is probably does.  The standby has to be able to 
> read archive logs generated on the primary.  Is the format of those logs 
> dependent upon the OS involved?  I thought it was, therefore, I thought the 
> OS had to be the same (as well as the version of the DB).
> 
> However, I had somebody tell me that they were sure that one reason oracle 
> created logical standbys was so that you could do this across different OSes.
> 
> A somewhat preliminary search of the Dataguard concepts manual and Metalink 
> has not provided a definative answer either way.
> 
> Thanks
> Matt
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