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Oracle Active Data Guard What Is It?

New Oracle Database 11g capability that builds upon Data Guard
Physical standby open read-only while changes applied from primary database
RMAN fast incremental backups on physical standby using Block Change Tracking
Auto-repair corrupted data blocks

Benefits
Improves primary database performance by offloading processing to standby
Makes productive use of existing physical standby databases

Licensing
Packaged as a separate database Option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
which comes with an additional investment.
Requires licensing of the production database and all the physical standbys that
are used for any of the above capabilities

Data Guard
Standby Database: Failover Target
Read-write
Workload
Real-time
Reporting

Fast
Incremental
Backups

Continuous redo
shipping, validation & apply

Production
Database

Physical Standby
Database

Active Data Guard 11g Release 2

Real-time Query
Real-time
Queries

Continuous Redo
Shipment and Apply

Production
Database

Fast
Incremental
backups

Active Standby
Database

Offload read-only queries to an up-to-date physical standby

Perform fast incremental backups on a physical standby
Control Application access to up to date information
Corruptions get automatically repaired!
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Active Data Guard Auto Block Repair

High Availability by Repairing Corruptions Online

Automatic Block Repair

When Oracle detects corrupt blocks at the primary database, it
will repair online by copying the good version from an active
standby database (and vice versa)
Transparent to the user and application

Read/Write
Workload

Real-time
Reporting
Continuous redo
shipping, validation & apply

Primary
Database

Active Standby
Database
Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Data Guard vs. Active Data Guard

Zero Impact to Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Data Guard 11g

Active Data Guard Option

Stop redo apply at 8am

Open read-only for queries

Redo apply is always on

Always open read only

By 4pm, data on physical

standby is 8 hours old

Queries and reports always

see latest data

Any failover will be delayed

due to backlog of data that
must be applied

Failover is immediate when

needed, standby database
always up-to-date

Active Data Guard 11g Release 2

Scale Read Performance

Support for up to 30 active standby databases

Queries

Updates

Queries

Queries
Queries

Queries

Production
Database

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