[Aug. 8, 2012 Update: Added additional details about logical standby and Oracle Streams]
[Aug. 24, 2011 update: Clarified description of AutoConfig dependency when enabling EBS failover environments]
Oracle Data Guard allows you to create standby databases for disaster recovery. Oracle Data Guard Broker provides an easy interface to configure standby databases and to perform role transitions with a single command for switchover and failover. It logically groups the primary and standby databases into a broker configuration that allows the broker to manage and monitor them together as an integrated unit. Oracle Data Guard Broker can automate the following operations:
There are two interfaces to manage broker configurations:
If you've implemented standby databases as part of your EBS disaster recovery or business continuity strategy, we'd recommend that you consider using Data Guard Broker, too. We've provided step-by-step configuration instructions to use the Data Guard Broker [DGMGRL] tool to manage Physical Standby databases for E-Business Suite Release 12. For detailed instructions, see:
Failover with E-Business Suite environments is not automatic. E-Business Suite environments must be failed over manually due to the need to run AutoConfig to reconfigure services on the failover site.
What about logical standby or Oracle Streams?
Neither logical standby nor Oracle Streams can be used for replicating E-Business Suite databases. As documented in Maximum Availability Architecture and Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i (Note 403347.1):
The process that mines the redo to create SQL statements for a logical standby cannot handle all data types and actions provided by the Oracle database. The E-Business Suite uses some of those “unsupported” data types. Thus, the Applications development group does not support the use of logical standby for an E-Business Suite implementation.
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Link for is not working, I get a 404 page not found when I click on "Offloading (Some) EBS 12 Reporting to Active Data Guard Instances" and sends me to http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/%20http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/adg_ebs12
Thanks for catching that. Our blogging system mangles links unpredictably. Fixed now.
Regards,
Steven
Is there any update to your blog or any MOS notes about using DataGuard with Oracle EBS 12.2.x?
It has been over 6 months and we are still waiting for Oracle to release documentation on EBS 12.2 DR. Have you heard of anything being done in this regard?
Hello, Guest,
We're sorry for the continued delay on this front. We've been working through our certification matrix for all possible Data Guard / Active Data Guard / EBS releases / Database releases. This is a very large permutation space, and it is taking some time to complete testing of all possible combinations.
We've made good progress on this, and we'll be announcing the latest certified combinations soon.
Oracle's Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog. I'll post updates here as soon as soon as they're available.
Regards,
Steven
Dear Steven,
Thanks for all the useful stuff.
I want to ask that what will be disadvantages of using OS level copy of primary application tier node in EBS dataguard configuration, rather than making clone of apps tier once and then using Syncing of standby with the primary after applying the patch?
Regrads,
Do we have doc references on R12.1.3 databases switching to standby but applications still on the same node
from Business Continuity for Oracle E-Business Release 12.1 Using Oracle 11g Release 2 Physical Standby Database (Doc ID 1070033.1) its seems its altogether a new clone