The most reliable high-availability oracle standby database software in existence and easier to use than Data Guard technology.

Version 7.0 of the Standby Wizard is fully integrated to work on both Unix, Linux, and Windows servers!

The Standby Wizard for Oracle automates the creation, maintenance, and switchback functions necessary to implement Oracle's standby database paradigm for high-availability. With an intuitive front-end, intelligent agents and automated log compression, the Standby Wizard for Oracle is more sophisticated and far more stable than Oracle's own Data Guard technology.

The Standby Wizard for Oracle is designed to lower your costs, automate your labor, and increase the fitness of your high-availability solution. With the Standby Wizard, any Oracle DBA can set up a standby database configuration in only a few hours. After a user becomes proficient with the Standby Wizard, one can define and begin building standby databases in only a few minutes!

The Standby Wizard is also not dependent on the Oracle Enterprise Edition or any complex Net8 configurations. This flexibility helps smaller companies reduce their Oracle licensing costs, in addition to the great savings realized inperson-hours when implementing the Standby Wizard.

The fact that the Standby Wizard is not dependent on Oracle's Net8 configuration, allows our customers to build standby databases across any network connection, to remote databases that might not even be a part of your Oracle domain. This feature gives our customers site transparent high-availability and a tool that can clone database copies to any location in the world.

The Standby Wizard not only automates the creation of your standby database configuration. The Standby Wizard's monitoring, diagnostic, and maintenance functions are also automated.

Managing a standby database configuration used to involve the querying of complex data ictionary views or mulling over raw output. Now all this information is at your fingertips with a simple GUI interface and an easy-to-understand auditing log for each standby database that you create.

Difficult maintenance tasks that are crucial in keeping a standby database viable are no longer necessary with the Standby Wizard. The Standby Wizard can actually detect if a tablespace (data file) or redo log specification has changed and will perform intelligently an incremental rebuild of your standby database, making only the minimal changes necessary.

The Standby Wizard will also detect database changes that are not logged (no logging) and will perform an incrimental rebuild on only those data files that need repair. This not only saves human resource hours - but it will save you disk and CPU usage in the maintainence of your tandby database configuration.

If disaster ever hits, the Standby Wizard can be activated along with your standby database without the need for an Oracle DBA to issue SQL commands to start, mount, activate, and open your standby database. Simply double-click on an automated command-file to perform these complex tasks. This feature, along with our powerful monitoring and validation tools, minimize the chances of your standby database configuration performing incorrectly during a
crisis.

When migrating back to your primary database after a crisis, the graceful switchback features of the Standby Wizard are second to none. Simply click on a single button with your mouse and the Standby Wizard rebuilds your original primary database from memory! Because of this graceful switchback feature, the Standby Wizard can be used as an automated hot-backup tool for your production databases. In the event of a failure, all you need to do is switchback to the last standby database that you created using the Standby Wizard.

The Standby Wizard allows you to create 9,999,999 standby databases for each production instance you are supporting.

The number of person-hours you will save using the Standby Wizard is amazing. We, at Relational Database Consultants, Inc. (RDC), have experienced a 95% reduction in labor costs when using the Standby Wizard to build and maintain standby databases.

Once you begin using the Standby Wizard, the complex project of implementing Oracle's standby database technology will become nothing more than a simple task – no more difficult than creating or dropping a table while drinking your morning cup of java.