Re: does 10g effectively retire Shareplex?

From: <fitzjarrell_at_cox.net>
Date: 27 Dec 2006 06:21:26 -0800
Message-ID: <1167229286.108112.215120@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Comments embedded.
Timasmith wrote:
> With the advent of 10g, assuming you have a full enterprise license,
> does that now invalidate the Shareplex product assuming you are doing
> just regular synchronization of 2 databases (one read only)?
>

That depends.

> Does Oracle Streams (?) have that same capability, so that a commit on
> a redo log on one database is propagated to the second at a relatively
> low cost of CPU/disk I/O?
>

Certainly it does, provided you've configured the destination database properly. There are, however, limitations to Streams as to which datatypes it can and cannot replicate. Data Guard is also available, however a logical Data Guard configuration suffers the same limitations as Streams. A physical Data Guard configuration does not.

I would read up on both Streams and Data Guard at tahiti.oracle.com, were I you.

> thanks

David FItzjarrell Received on Wed Dec 27 2006 - 08:21:26 CST