Mark Bole <makbo@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:<joNnc.65698$Z15.25503@newssvr25.news.prodigy .com>...
> Ryan Gaffuri wrote:
>
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr@dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<409dd70f$0$442$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au >...
> >
> >>Prem K Mehrotra wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have read about logical standby databases and want to use it in
> >>>my project for reporting.
> >>>
> >>>My main database instance will be using Oracle9i RAC, Reporting database
> >>>instance may use only Oracle9i.
> >>>
> >>>Are there any issues with Oracle9i RAC to Oracle9i for logical standy.
> >>> Also are there any issues from Oracle9i RAC to Oracle9i RAC.
> >>
> >>You mean, apart from the fact that logical standby has lots of bugs
> >>associated with it, and doesn't actually work very reliably?
> >>
> >>No, none at all.
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>HJR
> >
> >
> >
> > What bugs? Are there bugs in dataguard in general?
>
> DataGuard physical standby databases have been around for a long time
> and are pretty reliable.
>
> Logical standby is much newer and doesn't seem to be robust enough to
> use as a first choice for disaster recovery. For example, if you drop a
> user and then re-import on the primary, including lots of constraints,
> sequences, triggers, packages and procedures, in my tests the logical
> standby eventually stalled out to the point where it was easier to just
> re-create it than try to cajole the SQL apply to complete successfully.
>
> But logical standby might be just the thing for other uses besides
> disaster recovery. If you have ever implemented a physical standby so
> that you could open it read-only from time to time, then logical standby
> might better meet your needs.
>
> Be sure to get the white paper from Metalink "Oracle 9i Dataguard: SQL
> Apply Best Practices". I found several items there, not included in the
> main documentation, which resolved some bugs I was experiencing.
>
> --Mark Bole

Mark:

Thanks a lot, I was not aware of this metalink note. I want to use
logical standby more for reporting than for disaster rceovery. I know
it came only
in 9.2, but if people have used it for reporting without any major
problems
I will like to use it.


Thanks,

Prem