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Application Continuity for Oracle workloads with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

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This article explains how to implement Application Continuity (AC) for Oracle workloads using Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. AC helps critical workloads like banking applications meet availability requirements by enabling replay of requests after a recoverable error.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • What is Application Continuity and how it works
  • Prerequisites to set up the solution environment
  • Steps to create database services and triggers to enable AC
  • Configuring the database connection string and enabling Fast Application Notification
  • Verifying the Data Guard configuration with observer
  • Creating sample database objects and a Java application with AC enablement
  • Testing the solution by simulating a database failure and monitoring application resumption
  • Verifying completed transactions and clean-up steps


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