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Note: All the posts are based on practical approach avoiding lengthy theory. All have been tested on some development servers. Please don’t test any post on production servers until you are sure.

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Oracle Data Guard Configuration (DGMGRL) (11gR2 Windows 2008R2)

Brief:
Data Guard is the name for Oracle's standby database solution, used for disaster recovery and high availability. DG broker does not have the ability to create standby and is used for managing the dataguard configuration.

Task:  Create  physical standby database for an existing primary database. Both primary and standby would be on same physical machine.
PRM = primary db 192.168.26.11
STBL = local Standby 192.168.26.11

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

How to Restrict User from Connecting to Database Through Specific IP Address

Some of the DBA asked me to restrict the connection to DB from specific IPs. Its simple and you can use the logon trigger for this purpose.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Enabling/Disable Archive Log mode in RAC (11gR2)

Whether a single instance or clustered database, Oracle tracks (logs) all changes to database blocks in online redolog files. In an Oracle RAC environment, each instance will have its own set of online redolog files known as a thread. Each Oracle instance will use its set (group) of online redologs in a circular manner. Once an online redolog fills, Oracle moves to the next one.