Can i do dataguard between oracle 64 bit to oracle 32 bit?

Question

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can i do dataguard between oracle 64 bit to oracle 32 bit?
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Answer 1

Before issuing a definite yes or no, it is important to specify the OS platform and the DB version you are currently talking about.
By design, Oracle dataguard must run on the same platform, same OS, same OS patch level, same db patchset, same bitness. However, some customers, due to investment strategies, require the dataguard to run on undersized hardware with less resources, may be more limited than the production environment, or even more, to be on different platform. Oracle recommends to run on homogeneous platforms, just for simplicity in implementation and managing, but some mixing is allowed, including the word size.
On 10g the platform restriction remains, it has to be the same platform, i.e. linux - linux, windows - windows, hpux-hpux, but not necessarily the same word size, so 32/64 bits is possible, some procedures have to be followed, though. In 11g the cross platform dataguard is an added new feature, so it is possible to have a dataguard with a linux <-> windows combination.
Either way, on a 9i Dataguard the bitness was a restriction, it was not possible to have different word size combinations in a dataguard configuration, for both the sql apply and redo apply, on 10g it is possible, just be aware that the dataguard broker doesn't support different word size with the same dataguard configuration, so the management has to be performed from sqlplus (on 11g this restriction is over) and valid for the redo apply, not for the sqlapply (logical standby db), this last configuration has to run with the same bitness.
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