If I am not wrong, Active Data Guard enables read-only access to Primary standby from Oracle 11g. This will enable to run for Reporting. Karth Sent from my IPhone > On Mar 31, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Ricard Martinez <ricard.martinez@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hi list, > > We got an environment formed by one standalone 11g database (lets call it RW) > with an active dataguard on another server (lets call it RO) > We have provided to the users 2 tnsnames, one pointing to RW and the other to > the RO, and we have told them to use the first one for DML, etc and the RO > only for runing the reporting statments. > > As good users, they just ignore us and run all on the RW database, so we want > to force them to use the RO for reporting. > Meanwhile they got the 2 tnsnames entries, i see no real options to force > them to use the RW, unless we separate the schema in two (one with > insert/update, the other only with select), and we kill any session of the > select schema on the RO (using a cron maybe, forcing them to use RW to be > able to end their reports) > > Has any of you found in a similar situation, or can think in other options? > > Thanks > > > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l