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This tutorial simulates a scenario, where in you are unable to recover your standby database because of a corrupted archive log file. The premise is that the archive log is corrupted on both production and standby, and we do not have a backup of this archive log.

The tutorial shows an example of how we can use RMAN incremental backup to recover the standby in such a scenario.

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This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series 10gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10 x86 - 64

With CRS successfully installed and running, we can proceed with installation of Oracle RAC binaries and configure a RAC database. In this section we will see the screenshots for Oracle RAC database creation.

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This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series 10gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10 x86 - 64

On successful completion of cluster verification utility, you can proceed with installation of Oracle Clusterware. This section has the screenshots of clusterware installation including running the scripts as root from both nodes. DO NOT RUN these scripts parallely, run them on one node and then the other on completion of the script on the first node.

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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series 10gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10 x86 - 64

In this phase we will …..

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This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series 10gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10 x86 - 64

Since Oracle 11g R2 requires quite a lot of resources, you can use the following article to setup Oracle 10g RAC on Solaris 10. The article has sections common with the Oracle 11g R2 tutorial. Hence, I have just put in links where ever possible, so as to not repeat common content.
NOTE: If you are missing some configuration information in the links, come back here to gather that information. The idea is to just follow the links with the appropriate configuration information from this section.

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In case you are short of swap space, you can add swap in the following ways

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This article shows you how to create a raw partition on a disk in Solaris using the format command. The following are the steps to create a raw partition

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This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series 11gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10

With CRS successfully installed and running, we can proceed with installation of Oracle RAC binaries and configure a RAC database. In this section we will see the screenshots for Oracle RAC database creation.

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This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series 11gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10

On successful completion of cluster verification utility, you can proceed with installation of Oracle Clusterware. This section has the screenshots of clusterware installation including running the scripts as root from both nodes. DO NOT RUN these scripts parallely, run them on one node and then the other on completion of the script on the first node.

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This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series 11gR2 RAC on x86 64bit Solaris 10

In this phase we will …..

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