Yes we have a licence - are you saying just connect to the standby and do ALTER DATABASE OPEN READ WRITE? 2009/8/28 <TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > If you pay for the license, Oracle Active Data Guard, you can have the > changes applied while open read only. > > If you want to be able to write to it for testing and then erasing all of > the changes, enable flashback on primary and standby, open for read-write, > change all you want and flash it back to make it a standby again. > > I just did those 2 things in a presentation for my office. > > joe > > _______________________________________ > Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional > Systems Engineering & Administration Lead > (Work) 614-677-1668 > (Cell) 614-312-6715 > > Interested in helping out your marriage? > Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" > Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus. > > > > From: Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> To: ORACLE-L < > oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 08/28/2009 09:10 AM Subject: activate standy > without turning off primary Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ------------------------------ > > > > Oracle 11g Redhat Linux 64Bit > > I've got a lot on otherwise I would trawl the manuals > > How do I Activate a standby ?- for test purposes without affecting the > primary - so I get twow orking dbs on different boxes > > -- > Howard A. Latham > > > > -- Howard A. Latham