August 2015 archive

This topic is pretty easy. You have all the default properties that you can list using the broker: FastStartFailoverThreshold = '30' OperationTimeout = '30' FastStartFailoverLagLimit = '30' CommunicationTimeout = '180' FastStartFailoverAutoReinstate = 'TRUE' FastStartFailoverPmyShutdown = 'TRUE' BystandersFollowRoleChange = 'ALL' To change any of them, all you need is to run: "EDIT DATABASE <database name> SET PROPERTY <property …

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In this topic, you must know hot to perform your backups from your physical standby databases. With this, you will reduce the overhead and concurrency of reading your datafiles in the primary as well as avoiding the incrementing of the redo generation caused by full block being written while in backup mode. To make your backups even faster, …

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As the last topic of RAC, we need to know how to create Manual and Policy services (do not confuse with Admin / Policy managed databases). You can only create Policy managed services in Policy managed databases. Thus, this topic is a good opportunity to practice the conversion between Admin <-> Policy Managed databases. Practice: …

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Enabling archive in a RAC environment is a pretty easy task. Probably this is most focused and easier topic from the whole list. So here, all you will need is: Shutdown your database (all instances); Startup in mount one of them; Enable archivelog; Startup open the current one; Startup all the rest; It's much better …

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