DB link for physical standby database

Question

Hi All ,
I'm facing the below error on primary while trying to create a db link pointing to the 10g standby database which is in mount stage.
SQL> create database link synct connect to system identified by 123 using 'stdby';
Database link created.
SQL> select max(sequence#) from v$archived_log@synct where applied='YES';
select max(sequence#) from v$archived_log@synct where applied='YES'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02068: following severe error from SYNCT
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
Database version is 10.2 standard edition
My requirement is i need to get max(sequence#) of standby database from primary database using db link.
what i was trying to do is
on primary get max(sequence#) & get max(sequence#) of standby using db link and compare both if the gap differene is more than 10 send a mail.
Any suggestions will be really helpful

Answer 1

976422 wrote:
Hi All ,
I'm facing the below error on primary while trying to create a db link pointing to the 10g standby database which is in mount stage.
SQL> create database link synct connect to system identified by 123 using 'stdby';
Database link created.
SQL> select max(sequence#) from v$archived_log@synct where applied='YES';
select max(sequence#) from v$archived_log@synct where applied='YES'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02068: following severe error from SYNCT
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
Post Standby/DataGuard/ADG all questions further in Oracle Discussion Forums » High Availability » Data Guard
If you try to connect any users other than SYS in standby the error is very much expected. Of course you can connect with other users if you open database in OPEN READ ONLY mode, from 11gRx you can connect with other users even MRP is running if you are using ADG(active Data Guard licensed) .
I like to know, what you want to achieve by creating DB Link on physical standby database? Which is not allowed.
Database version is 10.2 standard edition
My requirement is i need to get max(sequence#) of standby database from primary database using db link.
what i was trying to do is
on primary get max(sequence#) & get max(sequence#) of standby using db link and compare both if the gap differene is more than 10 send a mail.
Any suggestions will be really helpfulNote:- Standard edition, Data Guard not enabled.
To use this you should use Oracle Net Service, you no need of DB Links.
Ex:- sqlplus sys/****@standby as sysdba
Here standby refers to Oracle net service, Where you will have entries in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora file.
Edited by: CKPT on Dec 12, 2012 2:01 PM