Automatic block media recovery to the rescue
As pointed out earlier, Oracle Active Data Guard (ADG) is a lot more than just the read-only standby database. One of the technologies no other product beats us on in regards to disaster recovery is the automatic block media recovery, which is part of the Active Data Guard license. This gets automatically enabled when you open the standby database read-only with redo apply enabled. You do not need to do something specific for it, it is just there. In spite…