We use a modified version (asynchronous rather than synchronous, to avoid the performance hit) for production databases, and have periodic tests to make sure that all is well. It does make life somewhat easier for DBAs, since storage and system admins are responsible for failing over the storage. Virtual IPs are in place so that no changes to TNS service names are needed. DBAs need only bring up the instances on the DR servers and hand over to application owners for checkouts. Once testing is over, the failback procedure is the reverse of failover. Paul Baumgartel CREDIT SUISSE Information Technology DBA & Admin - NY, KIGA 1 One Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 USA Phone 212.538.1143 paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.credit-suisse.com _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:18 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: SRDF vs. Dataguard for a failover site Has anyone used SRDF instead of dataguard to manage a failover site? Anyone have any opinions of it? ============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ==============================================================================