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Manual failover is allowed in Oracle SE, but there is the risk of data loss.
Also, it may take up to 30 minutes to recover the server
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Data Guard requires Oracle EE, but it automates the failover process to
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Oracle Streams requires Oracle10g Enterprise Edition.
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The least expensive option is the Oracle manual standby database.
Analysis
Design
Manual standby database
Implementation
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If the goal is to save money by using Oracle Standard Edition, which does not
have Oracle Data Guard included, multimaster replication and Oracle Streams, a
manual approach might be the solution.
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In this approach, a daemon process is written on the OS that will detect when the
Oracle ARCH process has completed writing an archived redo log. Then, the
SQL Tuning
daemon uses FTP or rsh to move the archived redo to the Oracle instance server
Security where it is automatically accepted into the Oracle instance because it remains in
Oracle UNIX RECOVER DATABASE mode.
Oracle Linux
Monitoring Oracle Data Guard manual standby database
Remote support
Remote plans The trick to this approach is to set the size of the online redo logs to minimize
Remote services data loss. This is done by examining the log switch rate for the Oracle database
Application Server at its PEAK DML load. For example, if the size of the online redo logs is set
Applications such that it has log switching every 5 minutes at peak load with an average of 15
Oracle Forms minutes, the maximum data loss is 15 minutes.
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Many shops improve this mechanism with solid-state disk (SSD) for the online
App Upgrades
redo logs and archived redo log filesystem. SSD can increase write speeds by
SQL Server
100 times, reducing recovery time by two orders of magnitude and reducing the
Oracle Concepts maximum data loss from 15 minutes to less than one minute. In summary, the
Software Support Oracle instance approach has these issues:
Remote Support
Development Allows the use of Oracle Standard Edition, which is far less expensive than
Implementation
the Enterprise Edition.

Requires the purchase of a license to use Oracle Data Guard for the
Consulting Staff standby database.
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If Oracle instance is geographically removed from the primary system, it
also provides a disaster recovery option.

Recovery can take up to 15 minutes.

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If the instance fails, the last redo log remains in the log buffer and online
redo log files. This means that there might be a small data loss.
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Don Burleson Blog Requires manual intervention to open the surviving Oracle instance and re-
direct incoming requests via tnsnames.ora or Apache to the new server.

NOTE: Oracle standby servers need to be fully licensed if they are "hot standby"
servers that can be used for queries. At one time, "failover" configurations that
were used less than 10 days per year did not need to be licensed, but current 2006
licensing policies suggest that if Data Guard is installed for "standby" purposes, it
requires full licensing. Check with your Oracle CSR for details on current
licensing. See also:

Oracle Data Guard licensing guidelines

The above text is an excerpt from:

Oracle Data guard Handbook

by Bipul Kumar

http://www.rampant-books.com/book_0402_Data Guard.htm

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