Why Disaster Recovery Testing is Mission Critical

Disaster Recovery, Technical Piece, Review, StandbyMP V11, SQL Server

Tested: StandbyMP v11 for SQL Server

ASPICON, are a group of IT specialists who work with their customers to design...

OPINION PIECE, Database Administration

Four Best Practices for Modern Database Administration

Data has long been an essential part of business. Today, the collection, storage, and...

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Upgrade to 19c on Oracle Standard Edition

Here at Dbvisit, we are experiencing significant interest in Disaster Recovery solutions...

The 9 Point Disaster Recovery Health Check

"They tell me they are planning to use manual scripting." This was the response I got...

How to guides, Dbvisit Standby Graceful Switchover

Standby's Graceful Switchover with the Command Line Interface (CLI)

Graceful Switchover is a process which allows your primary and standby databases to...

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Getting started with Oracle Database 18c Express Edition - Part 4

Part 4 of Getting Started with Oracle 18c XE

This post is the 4th and final post in the...

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Getting started with Oracle Database 18c Express Edition – Part 3

Part 3 on Oracle Database 18c Express Edition

This post is the 3rd in the series so far,...

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Getting started with Oracle Database 18c Express Edition - Part 2

Part 2 of Getting Started with Oracle 18c XE

This post will be the second part of this...

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Getting started with Oracle Database 18c Express Edition - Part 1

Getting Started with Oracle Database 18c Express Edition

Towards the end of 2018, Oracle...

Technical pieces, RTO and RPO

RTO and RPO in Disaster Recovery (DR) planning

RTO and RPO in Disaster Recovery Planning

The terms RTO and RPO are often thrown about in...

How to guides, Create support package in Dbvisit Standby v9

How to create a support package in Standby v9

Prior to having the support package feature it took Dbvisit Support considerable time to...

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Additional features in Standby v9

Since the end of October 2019, we covered all the important topics for installing,...

How to guides, Dbvisit Standby Synchronize Feature

How to use Synchronize feature in Dbvisit Standby v9 onwards

The Synchronize Standby Database Feature

Let’s kick off with a great feature called...

How to guides, Email notifications dbvisit standby v9

How to set up email notification on Standby v9

We’ve been covering a number of features in Dbvisit Standby over the last couple of...

Configuring Standby on the Oracle Database Appliance in Czech (Demo)

Previously you learned how to install Dbvisit Standby on the Oracle Database...

Cascading Standby Database, How to guides

Creating a Cascading Standby Database in Standby v9

Find out how Standby™'s Cascade Standby Database feature works. The feature was...

How to guides, Microsoft Azure

How to set up Dbvisit Standby in Microsoft Azure

One of Dbvisit’s Product Specialists does a great job showing us how to run Dbvisit...

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How to configure AMM on Standby

We have often seen customers running Dbvisit Standby wondering how to manage the...

How to Perform an Automatic Failover in Standby v9

Dbvisit Standby version 9.0.02 included the much anticipated Automatic Failover feature....

Setting up Standby: On-Premises & in the Oracle Cloud

Our earlier videos have been setting up the standby database on-premises. However, we...

graceful switchover for databases, How to guides

Dbvisit Standby's Graceful Switchover on Microsoft Windows

In this short video, find out how to perform a Graceful Switchover using Standby™’s...

How to guides, upgrading from dbvisit standby v6 to v8

Upgrading Dbvisit Standby from v6 to v8

Upgrading Standby™ from v6 to v8

Every now and then, we receive a support ticket from a...

Oracle database errors, Technical pieces

Know your Oracle Database

Know Your Oracle Database

While working with standby databases on a daily basis, every...

How to guides, Run dbvisit standby on an oracle database in aws

How to set up Standby in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We have previously learned about setting up Standby™ and having a standby database in the 

Technical pieces, single instance to RAC

Convert single instance standby database to RAC enabled database following standby activation

Convert Single Instance Standby Database To RAC Enabled Database Following Standby...

Demo: Installing Dbvisit Standby on the Oracle Database Appliance in Czech

Installing Standby™ on the Oracle Database Appliance

In this video, my coworker, Product...

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Oracle Restart and Standard Edition

The Basics of Oracle Restart and Oracle Standard Edition

In this blog post, we would like...