Oracle Golden Gate Replication Setup steps

Preparing the Source Database

STEP 1:- The Source database should be in archivelog mode, if not, follow the below steps:-

SQL> shutdown immediate

SQL> startup mount

SQL> alter database archivelog;

SQL> alter database open;

SQL> select log_mode from v$database;

LOG_MODE

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ARCHIVELOG

STEP 2:- Enable minimal supplemental logging:

SQL> alter database add supplemental log data;

Database altered.

STEP 3:- Turn off the database recyclebin feature and purge it.

SQL> PURGE DBA_RECYCLEBIN;
SQL> alter system set recyclebin=off scope=spfile;

DBA Recyclebin purged.

STEP 4:- Create GoldenGate Schema (tablespace/user) and grant necessary priveleges:-

SQL>  create tablespace gg_tbs datafile ‘/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl/gg_tbs_data01.dbf’ size 100m;

Tablespace created.

SQL>  create user ggate identified by oracle default tablespace gg_tbs quota unlimited on gg_tbs;

User created.

SQL>  grant CREATE SESSION, CONNECT, RESOURCE, ALTER ANY TABLE, ALTER SYSTEM, CREATE TABLE, DBA, LOCK ANY TABLE, SELECT ANY TRANSACTION, FLASHBACK ANY TABLE to ggate;

Grant succeeded.

SQL>  grant execute on utl_file to ggate;

Grant succeeded.

STEP 5:- Now go to the GoldenGate home directory and run scripts for creating all necessary objects for replication.

$ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/

$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL> @marker_setup.sql

SQL> @ddl_setup.sql

SQL> @role_setup.sql

SQL> grant GGS_GGSUSER_ROLE to ggate;

SQL> @ddl_enable.sql

STEP 6:- Now edit the parameter file:-

$./ggsci

GGSCI  1> EDIT PARAMS ./GLOBALS

GGSCHEMA ggate

STEP 7:- Now lets create the schema for replication on both source and target database.

SQL> create user source identified by source default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp;

User created.

SQL> grant connect,resource,unlimited tablespace to source;

Grant succeeded.

SQL>

SQL> create user target identified by target default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp;

User created.

SQL> grant connect,resource,unlimited tablespace to target;

Grant succeeded.

STEP 8:- Now Creating the directories for trail files on both servers and create directory for discard file on target server only.

Source server

mkdir /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr

Target Server

mkdir /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr

mkdir /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/discard

STEP 9:- Now, Configuring extract process on Source Database:-

$ ./ggsci

GGSCI  1> edit params mgr

PORT 7809

GGSCI  2> start manager

Manager started.

GGSCI (db.us.oracle.com) 3> info all

Program     Status      Group       Lag at Chkpt  Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER     RUNNING

STEP 10:- Login into database and add additional information about primary keys into log files.

GGSCI 4> dblogin userid ggate
Password:
Successfully logged into database.

GGSCI 5> ADD SCHEMATRANDATA source

2015-08-03 10:30:20 INFO OGG-01788 SCHEMATRANDATA has been added on schema source.

GGSCI 6> add extract ext1, tranlog, begin now
EXTRACT added.

GGSCI 7> add exttrail /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr, extract ext1
EXTTRAIL added.

GGSCI 8> edit params ext1
extract ext1
userid ggate, password oracle
exttrail /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr
ddl include mapped objname source.*;
table source.*;

GGSCI 9> info all

Program Status Group Lag at Chkpt Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER RUNNING
EXTRACT STOPPED EXT1 00:00:00 00:01:29

GGSCI 10> add extract pump1, exttrailsource /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr , begin now
EXTRACT added.

GGSCI 11> add rmttrail /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr, extract pump1
RMTTRAIL added.

GGSCI 12> edit params pump1
EXTRACT pump1
USERID ggate, PASSWORD oracle
RMTHOST db2, MGRPORT 7809
RMTTRAIL /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr
PASSTHRU
table source.*;

GGSCI 13> info all

Program Status Group Lag at Chkpt Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER RUNNING
EXTRACT STOPPED EXT1 00:00:00 00:02:33
EXTRACT STOPPED PUMP1 00:00:00 00:02:56

Preparing the Target Database

STEP 1:- Verify if the manager is running on the Target Server and Start if not already started.

$ ./ggsci

GGSCI 1> edit params mgr
PORT 7809

GGSCI 2> start manager

Manager started.

GGSCI 3> info all

Program Status Group Lag at Chkpt Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER RUNNING

STEP 3:- Create a checkpoint table and change the GLOBAL file.

GGSCI  4> EDIT PARAMS ./GLOBALS
CHECKPOINTTABLE     target.checkpoint

GGSCI  5> dblogin userid target
Password:
Successfully logged into database.

GGSCI  6> add checkpointtable target.checkpoint

Successfully created checkpoint table target.checkpoint.

STEP 4:- Add replicat process

GGSCI  8> add replicat rep1, exttrail /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/dirdat/tr, begin now
REPLICAT added.

GGSCI (db2) 9> edit params rep1
REPLICAT rep1
ASSUMETARGETDEFS
USERID target, PASSWORD oracle
discardfile /u01/app/oracle/product/gg/discard/rep1_discard.txt, append, megabytes 10 DDL
map source.*, target target.*;

GGSCI  10> info all

Program Status Group Lag at Chkpt Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER RUNNING
REPLICAT STOPPED REP1 00:00:00 00:01:32

GGSCI  11>

Starting Replication

At Source Server

STEP 1:- Start extract process

GGSCI  6> start extract ext1

Sending START request to MANAGER …
EXTRACT EXT1 starting

GGSCI  7> start extract pump1

Sending START request to MANAGER …
EXTRACT PUMP1 starting

GGSCI  8> info all

Program Status Group Lag at Chkpt Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER RUNNING
EXTRACT RUNNING EXT1 00:00:00 00:00:01
EXTRACT RUNNING PUMP1 00:00:00 00:01:01

At Destination Server

STEP 2:- Start Replicat Process

GGSCI  6> start replicat rep1

Sending START request to MANAGER …
REPLICAT REP1 starting

GGSCI (db2) 7> info all

Program Status Group Lag at Chkpt Time Since Chkpt

MANAGER RUNNING
REPLICAT RUNNING REP1 00:00:00 00:00:06

Finally our replication has been configured between source and destination DB, so now you can create objects under Source schema and it would get replicated to Target Schema. There are several features of GoldenGate which makes it far better than Oracle Streams and CDC.

Please comment below in case you require the automated script for configuring the GoldenGate replication with basic inputs at the run time. Also let me know if there is any step that is ambiguous or doubtful. I tried to mention it but just in case if there are any question regarding from which user to run, where to run, how to run any of the above commands, please comment below.