Re: dataguard Broker

From your description it almost sounds like your standby wasn’t the standby you thought it was. Like your TNS is pointing somewhere other than you thought.

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> On Oct 11, 2018, at 04:59, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oracle 11.2.0.4 redhat 5.
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> I just cant get it to work!
> Everything in the DGB setup looked fine. Even got it checked by a third party.
> But just as last time we tried we got a message from broker saying cannot switchover and primary was still primary but when I looked
> then we had two standbys. Nightmare!
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> My question is why did that happen?
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> The standby/primary pair operate fine manually but I really wanted to use DGB.
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> My method to recover from this was
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> 1. Connect to standby which should be primary. Alter database activate standby database;
> 2. Rman into standby which should be standby – restore database;
> 3. Start recovery at end of restore.
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> Howard A. Latham
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