RE: Switchover of Logical Standby database

  • From: "CRISLER, JON A" <JC1706@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:16:01 +0000

Are your clients configured with connect strings (jdbc or tnsnames) where both 
primary and standby sides are defied? Also is your app TAF compliant? And are 
you using Active Dataguard ?
I suspect more a client configuration issue.  I have seen funny behavior like 
this when older clients are connecting to new databases, or bugs in the client 
side.
This is why one should make sure that the client is upgraded to the same level 
as the db.
We have numerous configurations on 10g Dataguard, 1 primary and 2 standby, and 
the sessions re-establish to the correct primary database- however they are not 
TAF compliant so it requires a restart of the app.

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Gerry Miller
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 12:24 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Switchover of Logical Standby database

Hi

I have had some experience with physical standby databases and the Data 
Guard broker but have recently been asked to implement a logical standby 
on 10.2.0.4 on Windows 2008 Server.  I was quite surprised to find that 
when a switchover or failover is performed that the databases are not 
shutdown, which results in a faster operation. However, I was perturbed 
to find that any sessions that were originally on the primary remained 
on the same database, that is, ended up on the standby database, when I 
would have expected them to be on the new primary.  Queries can still be 
executed but any attempts at DML result in : "ORA-16224 Database Guard 
is enabled".   This seems an unlikely situation and I can't help but 
feel that I must have something wrong with the configuration, although I 
can't imagine that it would work at all if that were the case.

Is this the expected behaviour or should the sessions have transferred 
during the switchover?

Regards

Gerry
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