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One possible approach would be as follows:

• Use a form of the application name as the db_name. This application name should be

recognizable by the support staff, but does not necessarily have to be.

• Use a form of encoded location as the db_unique_name, even if you are not currently

planning on using Data Guard but other storage replication.

• You could use the same ORACLE_SID as the db_unique_name to keep the naming scheme

consistent.

Throughout the rest of the chapter you will find this principle applied. Figure 10-1 shows the configuration used
from a high level.

Figure 10-1. The Data Guard configurations to be used in the following sections. The figure shows the initial
configuration where the databases in data center A are in the primary role