Difference between Physical and logical Standby Database

Oracle provides two types of standby databases:

1. Physical Standby Database

Standby database is called “physical” if the physical structure of stand by exactly matches with stand by structure. Archived redo log transferred from primary database will be directly applied to the stand by database.

2. Logical Standby Database

Stand by database is called “logical”, the physical structure of both
databases do not match and from the archived redo log we create SQL statements then these statements will be applied to stand by database.

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