RE: logical standby using different os
- From: "Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial)" <MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:25:48 -0500
Never mind, found the answer. Yes, OS must be the same version (but not
necessarily the same release or patchset)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial)
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:24 PM
> To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: logical standby using different os
>
> The basic questions is: Does a dataguard logical standby have to be on the
> same OS as the primary?
>
> Off hand I was thinking, yes is probably does. The standby has to be able to
> read archive logs generated on the primary. Is the format of those logs
> dependent upon the OS involved? I thought it was, therefore, I thought the
> OS had to be the same (as well as the version of the DB).
>
> However, I had somebody tell me that they were sure that one reason oracle
> created logical standbys was so that you could do this across different OSes.
>
> A somewhat preliminary search of the Dataguard concepts manual and Metalink
> has not provided a definative answer either way.
>
> Thanks
> Matt
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