Chapter 1: Understanding Replication This chapter provides an overview of the options available for data replication with the Oracle Server.
Chapter 2: Designing a Replicated Environment This chapter introduces many of the issues that you will need to consider when designing your replicated environment.
Chapter 3: Read-Only Snapshots This chapter explains how to use read-only snapshots to perform basic primary site replication.
Chapter 4: Multi-Master Replication This chapter describes how to create and maintain a multi-master replicated environment using the Oracle symmetric replication facility.
Chapter 5: Snapshot Replication This chapter describes how to create and maintain a snapshot site using the Oracle symmetric replication facility. This chapter also describes updatable snapshots.
Chapter 6: Conflict Resolution This chapter describes how to use Oracle-supplied conflict resolution methods to resolve conflicts resulting from dynamic or shared ownership of data in a replicated environment.
Chapter 7: Administering a Replicated Environment This chapter describes how to detect and resolve unresolved replication errors, as well as how to monitor successful conflict resolution.
Chapter 8: Advanced Techniques This chapter describes advanced replication techniques, including how to do the following: create your own conflict resolution routines; implement a fail-over site; implement token passing; use procedural replication; and handle deletes.
Chapter 9: Troubleshooting This chapter describes how to solve several common problems that you may encounter in setting up your replicated environment.
Chapter 10: Using Job Queues This chapter describes how to use job queues to schedule routines to be executed periodically.
Chapter 11: Using Deferred Transactions This chapter describes how to build transactions for deferred execution at remote locations.
Chapter 12: Reference This chapter describes the parameters for the packaged procedures used to implement a replicated environment, as well as any exceptions that might be raised by these procedures.
Chapter 13: Data Dictionary Views This chapter describes the views that may be of interest to users of deferred transactions, read-only snapshots, and the symmetric replication facility.
Appendix A: Compatibility This appendix discusses the compatibility issues between release 7.3 of the advanced replication option and previous releases.
Appendix B: Operating System-Specific Information This appendix is a summary of all the operating system-specific references contained within this manual.