Oracle DBA

ZDLRA: The Most Misunderstood Oracle Technology ZDLRA: The Most Misunderstood Oracle Technology… Until You Actually Deploy It Every DBA talks about backups. Very few talk about never losing a single transaction . That gap is exactly why Oracle built the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA) . And yet, most people still dismiss it as “just an expensive backup box.” Here’s the thing. ZDLRA is not a backup appliance. It’s a real-time redo ingest and autonomous recovery platform , engineered specifically for Oracle databases and Exadata environments. You don’t fully understand its value until you run it in production. Let’s break down what most DBAs only learn the hard way. 1. Redo Transport Is Not Backup ZDLRA continuously ingests redo using Real-Time Redo Transport , the same proven mechanism used by Data Guard in SYNC mode. What this really means: Your last committed tra...