I forgot to mention that I cannot use cascading standbys since the first one will be decommissioned once the second one is sync'd with the primary. Sandy On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Solaris 10 > Oracle 11.2.0.2 EE > > I need to create a second physical standby for several production > databases. Never having done this, I have questions. Any help or pointing > me to a good doc is greatly appreciated. > > 1. Does the second standby require additional standby redo logs in the > primary? > 2. I want this second standby to be the failover database (newer, better > hardware). Do I need to change only the order in the FAL_SERVER parameter > or are there additional parameter changes needed to ensure the proper order? > 3. For the data guard configuration, is there a specific order for things > to be done there? > > I've been reading the oracle docs, but can't seem to find any > instructions/examples on adding a second physical standby. I haven't found > anything yet in the oracle-l archives either. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Sandy > GHX > -- Sandy GHX