This document provides an overview of Oracle Active Data Guard, which allows standby databases to be open for read-only access while redo data is being shipped from the primary database. Key points include:
- Active Data Guard enables offloading of queries and reporting to standby databases while maintaining high availability.
- Fast incremental backups can be performed on standby databases, which are up to 20 times faster than full backups.
- Real-time queries on standby databases always see the most up-to-date committed data from the primary with minimal latency.