EXPERT RESPONSE
Training for Data Guard is available from Oracle, as
well as other vendors such as TUSC. I'm not sure if Oracle has
education centers in India, but their Web site will surely answer that for you.
Fail Safe is a Windows-only product. To get similar functionality on Solaris,
you'll need to purchase and configure a failover clustering product suchas
SunCluster or Veritas Cluster Server.
The documentation for standby databases is incorporated into the standard server
documentation for 8.1.7 in the book titled "Oracle8i Standby Database Concepts
and Administration". Data Guard was present in late versions of 8i, but
wasn't really fully implemented until 9i. If you're planning to use standby
databases, you shouldn't have any problems in 8i, but the features available
in 9.2.0.4 and higher may make it worth upgrading.
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