Re: options for standby database

  • From: Michael Brown <dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: maureen.english@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 23:31:36 -0400

I believe that you could also use DBVisit Replicate.  
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On May 21, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Maureen English <maureen.english@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks!
> 
> David, Golden Gate sounds promising...time to do more research.  I think that
> GoldenGate is pretty expensive, but hey, isn't everything negotiable these 
> days?
> 
> Jared, you're right, Windows doesn't help :-)
> 
> I've also heard that Streams will no longer be supported after 11gR2.
> 
> - Maureen
> 
> 
> On 5/20/2014 12:26 PM, David Fitzjarrell wrote:
>> This sounds like a case for Golden Gate as it can perform cross-endian 
>> replication:
>> 
>> Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate 
>> <http://www.oracle.com/au/products/database/dataguardgoldengate-096557.html>
>> 
>> It does require licensing but it may be a way to replicate your production 
>> database without moving it to Linux.
>> 
>>      
>> Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate 
>> <http://www.oracle.com/au/products/database/dataguardgoldengate-096557.html>
>> A comparison between Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate
>>      
>> View on www.oracle.com 
>> <http://www.oracle.com/au/products/database/dataguardgoldengate-096557.html>
>>      
>> Preview by Yahoo
>> 
>> David Fitzjarrell
>> Principal author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide"
>> On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:14 PM, Maureen English 
>> <maureen.english@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We currently have our main production database running on HP-UX with a
>> standby database, also HP-UX, at our DR site.
>> 
>> It's possible that we will lose funding for the DR site at some point in
>> the next few years, so management is looking into Amazon Web Services -
>> Cloud Computing Services to host our DR servers.  From what I understand,
>> AWS Cloud is Linux only.
>> 
>> Since Oracle doesn't yet support HP-UX primary/Linux standby, I think
>> that our only option is to move our production database to Linux.  Is
>> that true, or can anyone think of some other option?  Or, is it possible
>> that Oracle might support HP-UX primary/Linux standby in the near future?
>> Or, is HP-UX primary/Linux standby not likely possible any time soon
>> because HP-UX is big-endian and x86-64 is little-endian?
>> 
>> - Maureen
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