Automate and Bulletproof Your Data Guard
Mar 11, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Learn how you can setup Data Guard with all the best practices. Attendees will get a brief history of Data Guard and how it became Data Guard. Then we will dive directly into new features in Oracle Data Guard 12c Release 2/18c/19c/21c/23ai new features.
In addition to demonstrating how simple it is to setup Data Guard, this session will disseminate fundamental Data Guard best practices and reference architectures that DBAs need to know to protect their Oracle ecosystem. The author of the Oracle Data Guard Handbook will demonstrate how DBAs should setup, configure, and monitor mission critical Data Guard environments (including Active Data Guard).
Come see Data Guard best practices in action. The session concentrates on:
- Building the Physical Standby
- Monitoring and Maintaining the Physical Standby
- Configuring Data Guard Broker
- Setting up FSFO
- Performing Backup and Recovery with RMAN
- Setting Archive Retention
- Switchover with Refreshable PDBs
- Subset Standbys with PDBs
Attendees will get access to all the scripts to automate the Data Guard configuration.
Presented by Charles Kim, CEO, Viscosity
This event is co-hosted by the New York Oracle Users Group (www.nyoug.org) and Oracle Professional Services firm, Viscosity North America (www.viscosityna.com)
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Charles Kim
Charles Kim is an Oracle ACE Director, VMware Expert, an Oracle Certified DBA, Certified Exadata Specialist, and a Certified Oracle Linux, Oracle Cloud, and RAC Expert. Charles was selected into the Oracle ACE Program on May 2008 and became an Oracle ACE Director as of December 2009. Charles has been an Oracle ACE Director every year since 2009. Charles became a VMware vExpert in the class of 2013.
Charles specializes in Cloud, Exadata, RAC, and Virtualization (VMware, KVM and Oracle VM) and co-authored ten books around the Oracle EcoSystem:
- Oracle Cloud Pocket Reference Guide – A Handbook on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- PDB Me to Oracle Cloud – A Lazy DBA’s Guide to Mastering Multi-Tenant
- Exadata Expert Handbook
- Oracle Database 11g New Features for DBA and Developers
- Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs
- Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook
- Virtualizing Business Critical Oracle Databases: Database As A Service
- Oracle ASM 12c Pocket Reference Guide
- Virtualizing Hadoop
- Solaris and Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs
Charles is a co-founder and CEO of Viscosity North America, a highly specialized niche consulting organization comprised of industry experts in Oracle Engineered Systems, RAC, Oracle Cloud, Virtualization and Performance Tuning.
Charles holds certifications in Oracle Databases, VMware, Red Hat & Oracle Linux, and Microsoft and has over 30 years of Oracle experience on mission and business critical databases. Charles presents regularly at local, regional, national and international Oracle conferences including IOUG Collaborate, VMware World, RMOUG, UKOUG, New Zealand/Australia Oracle User Group, and Oracle OpenWorld on topics of Oracle Cloud, RAC, Exadata, Database Consolidations, Private Database Cloud, ASM, Linux Best Practices, Data Guard Best Practices, Performance Tuning, VMware Virtualization Best Practices, and 7×24 High Availability Considerations.
Viscosity's core expertise includes:
Data Transformation, Emerging Technology, High Availability & Scalability Solutions, Cloud Migrations, Performance Tuning, Data Integrations, Machine Learning, APEX Development, and Custom Application Development.