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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration : Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration : Beginner's Guide If you're an Oracle Database Administrator it's almost essential to know how to protect and preserve your data. This is the perfect primer to Data Guard that covers all the bases with a totally practical, user-friendly approach.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849687904
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring the Oracle Data Guard Physical Standby Database 3. Configuring Oracle Data Guard Logical Standby Database 4. Oracle Data Guard Broker 5. Data Guard Protection Modes 6. Data Guard Role Transitions 7. Active Data Guard, Snapshot Standby, and Advanced Techniques 8. Integrating Data Guard with the Complete Oracle Environment 9. Data Guard Configuration Patching 10. Common Data Guard Issues 11. Data Guard Best Practices Index

Dealing with UNNAMED datafiles


There are some reasons for a file being created as UNNAMED in the standby database, including insufficient disk space on the standby site, non-privileged directory structure on standby database, or improper parameter settings related to file management.

The STANDBY_FILE_MANAGEMENT parameter enables or disables automatic standby file management in Data Guard. When automatic standby file management is enabled, file additions and deletions in the primary database are replicated to the standby database.

For example, we add a datafile in the primary database when the STANDBY_FILE_MANAGEMENT parameter on the standby database is set to MANUAL. Due to this parameter setting, it will create an UNNAMED file under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, and this will cause the MRP process to be killed. Errors in the alert log file will be as follows:

Errors in file /u01/app/oracle2/diag/rdbms/india_ps/INDIAPS/trace/INDIAPS_pr00_691.trc:
ORA-01111: name for data file 10 is unknown - rename to...
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