List of Figures

1-1 Log Apply Services for Physical and Logical Standby Databases

1-2 Oracle9i Data Guard Configuration

1-3 Data Guard Architecture

2-1 Some Possible Standby Configurations

2-2 Standard Bidirectional Standby Database Configuration

2-3 Standby Locations Used to Off-load Backup Operations and Reporting

2-4 A Single Location Shared by Multiple Standby Databases

3-1 Standby Database Creation

3-2 Creating Standby Databases Using Different Backups

5-1 Archiving Redo Logs

5-2 Redo Log Reception Options

6-1 Automatic Updating of a Standby Database

6-2 Parallel Recovery Session

6-3 Standby Database in Read-Only Mode

7-1 Standby Database Road Map

7-2 Data Guard Configuration Before a Switchover Operation

7-3 Standby Databases Before Switchover to the New Primary Database

7-4 Data Guard Environment After Switchover

7-5 Failover to a Standby Database

8-1 Archiving Redo Logs from a Multi-instance Primary Database

12-1 Archiving Operation to an Alternate Destination Device

12-2 Specifying Disk Quota for a Destination

B-1 Standby Database in Manual Recovery Mode

B-2 Manual Recovery of Archived Logs in an Archive Gap

C-1 Asynchronous Network I/O Processes

D-1 Standby Database in Real Application Clusters