Preface

Oracle Data Guard is the most effective solution available today to protect the core asset of any enterprise—its data, and make it available on a 24x7 basis even in the face of disasters and other calamities. This guide describes Oracle Data Guard technology and concepts, and helps you configure and implement standby databases.

Audience

Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration is intended for database administrators (DBAs) who administer the backup, restoration, and recovery operations of an Oracle database system.

To use this document, you should be familiar with relational database concepts and basic backup and recovery administration. You should also be familiar with the operating system environment under which you are running Oracle software.

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Related Documentation

Readers of Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration should also read:

• The beginning of Oracle Database Concepts, that provides an overview of the concepts and terminology related to the Oracle database and serves as a foundation for the more detailed information in this guide.

• The chapters in the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide that deal with managing the control files, online redo log files, and archived redo log files.

• The chapter in the Oracle Database Utilities that discusses LogMiner technology.

• Oracle Data Guard Broker that describes the graphical user interface and command-line interface for automating and centralizing the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of Data Guard configurations.

• Oracle Enterprise Manager online Help system

Discussions in this book also refer you to the following guides:

• Oracle Database SQL Reference

• Oracle Database Reference

• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics

• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference

• Oracle Database High Availability Overview

Also, see Oracle Streams Concepts and Administration for information about Oracle Streams and the Streams Downstream Capture Database. The Streams downstream capture process uses the Oracle Data Guard redo transport services to transfer redo data to log files on a remote database where a Streams capture process captures changes in the archived redo log files at the remote destination.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: