--------------- installation -------------------

1. set oracle_home, oracle_sid, LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2. unzip and untar goldengate media
3. run ggsci
4. create subdirs

---------------- pre-requisties --------------

1. archive log mode
2. alter database add supplemental log data ; alter system switch logfile;
--- not needed acutally --> ALTER DATABASE ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA(ALL) COLUMNS
-- this is needed in rare cases like (insertupdates and nocompressupdates)
3. create gg tablespace, user with this default tablespace and dba role
4. enable force logging

4. add trandata to the table been replicated ( add trandata test.test_table)

5. --optional (configure heartbeat)
6. --optional but recommended (make sure the table has either primary or unique
key)
7. set the characterset in the paramters : SETENV ( NLS_LANG =
"AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8" )
8. configure DDL replication and sequence replication

------------- configuration mgr/extract/pump ---------------

1. configure manager process

2. configure extract process
3. add extract and extract trail
4. add pump and remote trail

--------- configure Replciation ---------

1. add checkpoint table
2. add replicate