We had an interesting comment from a potential customer recently. Their impression was that Dbvisit was created specifically for Oracle 8i and 9i, at the stage when Data Guard was not yet fully “matured”.
This is not the reason that we created Dbvisit.
Dbvisit was created out of a desire to provide organizations with an easy to use, robust and secure Disaster Recovery solution. In particular we had those customers in mind who had Oracle Standard (SE) and Standard One (SE1) edition databases, and did not want to upgrade to Enterprise Edition to make use of Data Guard. This has proven to be a successful strategy, as we are now trusted by companies in many parts of the world showing that Dbvisit is a world-class (and affordable) Oracle disaster recovery solution.
The advantages in using Dbvisit are:
For a comparison between Dbvisit and Data Guard please see here: http://www.dbvisit.com/dataguard.php.
Dbvisit works with all versions of Oracle. Starting from Oracle 8i onwards to the latest release of Oracle. In some cases Dbvisit will also work with Oracle 7.3. Dbvisit works with all editions of Oracle from Oracle XE, Standard One, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.
Some of our customers have a mix of Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition databases. Rather than use two different DR solutions, they have decided to standardize on Dbvisit for all their databases, so this includes using Dbvisit on Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. This strategy has been working very well for them.
For customers that are still running Oracle 8i and 9i databases (and there are still quite a few), Dbvisit can be used to protect those databases and future proof their investment as Dbvisit will work with all versions and features of Oracle when they decide to upgrade. Dbvisit works on Windows, Linux and Unix.
We have just released Dbvisit 5.2.24 for all platforms.
This version fixes an issue introduced in 5.2.22 when creating a standby database using a primary database that has a pfile only. Dbvisit does not pick up the correct pfile to transfer to the remote server. This has been fixed. Database using spfiles are not affected.
The full details of this release are:
New features:
Fixes:
The latest version of Dbvisit can be downloaded from http://www.dbvisit.com/download.php
We have just released Dbvisit 5.2.22 for all platforms.
This version allows for a different Standby Database name (ORACLE_SID_DEST) and different admin directories during the creation of the standby database. It also has a number of fixes, a number of which are related to NLS settings of non English.
The full details of this release are:
New features:
Fixes:
The latest version of Dbvisit can be downloaded from http://www.dbvisit.com/download.php
We have released a new online service desk to further improve our support for Dbvisit. Tickets can be created online for any Dbvisit support issue. Tickets can be viewed and tracked at any stage to ensure progress is being made.
Any updates to the tickets will be automatically emailed to the person who created the ticked.
To create a new ticket in our service desk please go to: http://www.dbvisit.com/support.php
