CHAPTER 1Data Guard Architecture

Human error, hardware failures, software and network failures, and large-scale events such as fires, hurricanes, and earthquakes all jeopardize the availability of databases that are the lifeblood of business applications. The impact to operations when critical databases are unavailable is so obvious that few people need to be convinced of the importance of data protection and availability.

As an Oracle user, you have already done your homework on Oracle Data Guard. You know that Data Guard is purpose-built for protecting Oracle data, offering the highest levels of data protection and availability while still maintaining the best performance for your Oracle database. You know that, as a native capability built ...

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