Sunday, September 23, 2012

How To Open The Standby Database When The Primary Is Lost

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Startup Mount

[oracle@rac2 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Wed Feb 4 19:51:12 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> STARTUP MOUNT
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area  218103808 bytes
Fixed Size                  1260984 bytes
Variable Size             184549960 bytes
Database Buffers           29360128 bytes
Redo Buffers                2932736 bytes
Database mounted.
Check Status

SQL> SELECT OPEN_MODE,PROTECTION_MODE,DATABASE_ROLE FROM V$DATABASE;
OPEN_MODE  PROTECTION_MODE      DATABASE_ROLE
---------- -------------------- ----------------
MOUNTED    MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE  PHYSICAL STANDBYHow To Open The Standby Database When The Primary Is Lost
3/5  2/4/2009 
Recover if you have logs to apply
In this example the primary is lost and I don't have more archived logs to apply:

SQL> RECOVER STANDBY DATABASE;
ORA-00279: change 794348 generated at 12/29/2008 12:23:02 needed for thread 1
ORA-00289: suggestion :
/u01/app/oracle/oradata/dgfdb/archive/1_49_633452428.dbf
ORA-00280: change 794348 for thread 1 is in sequence #49
Specify log: {<RET>=suggested | filename | AUTO | CANCEL}
ORA-00308: cannot open archived log
'/u01/app/oracle/oradata/dgfdb/archive/1_49_633452428.dbf'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
SQL> !ls -l /u01/app/oracle/oradata/dgfdb/archive/
total 31072
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall  1158656 Dec 29 11:31 1_37_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall  7385600 Dec 29 11:31 1_38_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall  4941824 Dec 29 11:31 1_39_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall 13739008 Dec 29 11:31 1_40_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall  2272256 Dec 29 11:50 1_41_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall     1024 Dec 29 11:51 1_42_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall    89088 Dec 29 11:51 1_43_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall  1847296 Dec 29 12:18 1_44_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall   135680 Dec 29 12:18 1_45_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall    67584 Dec 29 12:19 1_46_633452428.
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall    34816 Dec 29 12:22 1_47_633452428.dbf
-rw-r-----  1 oracle oinstall     2048 Dec 29 12:22 1_48_633452428.dbf
Finish the Recovery process

SQL> ALTER DATABASE RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE FINISH;
Database altered.
Activate the Standby Database

SQL> ALTER DATABASE ACTIVATE PHYSICAL STANDBY DATABASE;
Database altered.
Check the new status

SQL> SELECT OPEN_MODE,PROTECTION_MODE,DATABASE_ROLE FROM V$DATABASE;
OPEN_MODE  PROTECTION_MODE      DATABASE_ROLE
---------- -------------------- ----------------
MOUNTED    MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE  PRIMARY
Open the Database

SQL> ALTER DATABASE OPEN
Database altered.

SQL> SELECT OPEN_MODE,PROTECTION_MODE,DATABASE_ROLE FROM V$DATABASE;
OPEN_MODE  PROTECTION_MODE      DATABASE_ROLE
---------- -------------------- ----------------
READ WRITE MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE  PRIMARY
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